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Betty Colbert (1931-2025)

Betty Anne Poston Colbert passed away in Leesburg, Virginia on March 31, 2025. She was 94. Born at home in Bluemont on January 18, 1931, Betty was the only child of Joseph Franklin Poston and Maude Ellen Manuel Poston. Betty…

Rosemary Stanger (1949-2024)

Rosemary Jean T, Stanger was called home to Heaven on June 7, 2024. With her family by her side at her Estate on the Blue Ridge Mountains in Bluemont, Virginia. A memorial service will be held at St. Edwards Catholic…

Henry Plaster (1928-2022)

Henry Garnett Plaster, Jr., 93, of Bluemont, Virginia, passed away peacefully on March 21, 2022. Henry was born July 26, 1928, to Henry Garnett Plaster, Sr., and Jerusha Lohman Plaster in Washington, DC. After graduating from St. Albans School in…

Evelyn Porterfield Johnson (1937-2021)

Evelyn Porterfield Johnson was born in Kansas City, Missouri on January 7, 1937, and moved to the Washington area as a child. She graduated from Eastern Baptist College now Eastern University near Philadelphia and attended Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in…

Marie Scott (1938-2020)

Marie A. Scott, 82, of Bluemont, departed this life on Tuesday, Dec. 1, 2020, at Inova Loudoun Nursing and Rehab Center in Leesburg, VA. She was born and raised and was a lifelong resident of Bluemont, VA.  She graduated from Douglass…

African Americans in Early Bluemont

Before the Civil War, James Fields, a free African American, became the first to own property on the Blue Ridge slope behind what is now the Bluemont General Store. In the years following the war, Benjamin Franklin Young trained under…

Martin Mitchell (1930-2017)

Martin Mitchell, 87, of Bluemont, Virginia, died Saturday, October 14, 2017, in Greenfield Senior Living of Berryville. Mr. Mitchell was born March 25, 1930, in Upperville, Virginia, the son of the late Michael Mitchell and Daisy Rector Mitchell. He retired…