Obituaries

TRIXIE JENKINS ACEY Born 29 October 1933 Died 10 April 2020

Samuel Kinnear Patton died peacefully on April 5, 2023, at age 93 at Vassar Brothers Medical Center in Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

John Cameron Goodbar passed away on April 8, 2023.

Rudie Clark Terhune achieved many recognitions during her life, both personally and professionally.

“I want to believe that we will meet again, maybe just as energies, not necessarily cherubim with wings and bare bottoms. There are mysteries and this is a basic one. You’re not going to know the details of this until after you’re - wait for it – dead!” JoAnn Grose from her ‘You Can’t Eat Ice Cream In the Shower’ blog For the record, JoAnn died Feb. 7, 2023. Also for the record, chronologically she was 77 years old. She, for the most part, was not aware of her age. At the time of her death, she was in the final stages of planning a family trip to the Grand Canyon for which she stayed up all night hitting “refresh, refresh, refresh” until the lodge she wanted to stay in opened limited reservations online. She was also in the early stages of planning a trip to Iceland next spring for which she had already bought and returned several versions of outrageously puffy outerwear.

Bonnie M. Wolfe Claytor, 102, passed away peacefully at home on Saturday, March 11, 2023.

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It is with immense sadness we share that Albert Don Graves, 82, passed from this life into the glory of heaven on April 1, 2023, surrounded by his family at home in Buena Vista after a short battle with cancer.

James Blair Harris, 94, of Lexington passed peacefully in the presence of his children Thursday, March 30, 2023.

Larry Preston Lunsford, 71, of Buena Vista passed away peacefully Wednesday, March 29, 2023, at Henrico Doctors Hospital in Richmond.

Charles J. Staton, 91, of Lexington died Saturday, April 1, 2023, at his home.