Brenda Blankenship McCoy

Brenda Gail Blankenship McCoy, age 60 of Pounding Mill, VA passed away Wednesday, August 25, 2010 at the Clinch Valley Medical Center in Richlands, VA, following a brief illness. She was born April 17, 1950 at Paynesville, WV and was a daughter of Mrs. Fanny Allen Blankenship of Paynesville, WV and the late Cornelius Blankenship. She was a native of Buchanan County, having lived there till 1977 when she moved to Pounding Mill, VA. Being a loving and caring woman, she worked as a caregiver for the elderly in many families for eighteen years. Mrs. McCoy was of the Christian faith and attended Church at the Baptist Valley Assembly of God. She was a loving wife, mother, grandmother, sister, and was a great friend to many people. She will be sadly missed by all who knew and loved her. In addition to her father, she was preceded in death by one sister, Connie Jean Blankenship Stacy. In addition to her mother, survivors include her loving husband of forty-two years, Freddie Lee McCoy; three sons, Edward Lee McCoy and wife, Patty, Jeffery McCoy and wife, Rhonda, and James Keith McCoy, all of Pounding Mill, VA; four sisters, Kathy Blankenship and husband, Edgar, and Bonnie Blankenship and husband, Paul, all of Hurley, VA, Teresa Lester and husband, Glen of Grundy, VA and Vickie Lester and husband, Carson of Rural Retreat, VA; one brother, Eddie Blankenship of Paynesville, WV; three grandsons, Brian Charles McCoy and Dustin Ray McCoy of Hillsville, VA, and Jeffery Tyler McCoy of Jewell Ridge, VA; two step-granddaughters, Amanda Strouth and husband, Barry and Angela Beth Vance and husband, Derrick, all of Richlands, VA; two step-great-granddaughters, Holly Katlin Vance and Madison Hope Strouth; a special friend of thirty-two years, Mildred Cornwell of Cedar Bluff, VA; several nieces and nephews, other loving family members and many friends. Funeral services for Brenda Gail Blankenship McCoy will be conducted at 2:00 p.m. Sunday, August 29, 2010 at the Hurst-Scott Funeral Home Chapel in Tazewell, VA with the Rev. Doug Blankenship and Pastor Seth White officiating. Entombment will follow at Greenhills Memory Gardens Mausoleum in Claypool Hill, VA. Pallbearers will be Billy McCoy, Duane McCoy, Daniel McCoy, Rodney Hardin, Heath Hardin, and Scott McCoy. Honorary pallbearers will be the Staff of Clinch Valley Medical Center’s Intensive Care Unit and Dr. Toeya Piriz. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6 – 9 p.m. Saturday, August 28, 2010