Eunice Sublett Robinette, 87, of Abingdon, Va., formerly of Tazewell, Va., died Thursday, October 8, 2009, at Grace Health Care in Abingdon, Va. Born December 26, 1921, at Montcalm, W.Va., she was a daughter of the late Samuel William Sublett and Ellie Alice Hamlin Sublett. She was a member of the Tazewell Pentecostal Holiness Church.

Mrs. Robinette was a very caring person and always willing to reach out a helping hand to her friends and neighbors. She will be greatly missed. In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, John Walker Robinette Sr., who died in 1998; two sisters, Maxine Sublett and Ruth Sublett Blankenship; six brothers, Claude, Lewis, Harry, Herbert, Roland and Mark Sublett; and two infant grandchildren.

Survivors include two daughters, Wanda Yvonne Poff, of Salem, Va., and Sharon R. Turner, of Bristol, Va.; five sons, John W. Robinette Jr. and wife, Susie, of Pulaski, Va., Arlen Wade Robinette and wife, Juanita, of Glade Springs, Va., Bobby Laney and wife, Naomi, of Cedar Bluff, Va., Edward Laney, of Tazewell, Va., and Gene Laney, of North Tazewell, Va.; five sisters, Amy Quillen, of Princeton, W.Va., Myrtle Arthur, of Paint Bank, W.Va., Wanda Gills, of Salem, Va., Ida Mae Clay, of Montcalm, W.Va., and Eldora Fleenor, of Flint, Mich.; 12 grandchildren and 12 greatgrandchildren.

Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday, October 11, 2009, at Peery & St. Clair Funeral Home Chapel, in Tazewell, Va. with the Rev. Larry L. Roberts and the Rev. Dr. Greg DeMarco officiating. Burial will follow at Greenhills Memory Gardens at Claypool Hill, Va. Pallbearers will be Pierce Davidson, Hughie Long, Les Mitchell, Doug Pruett, Benny Moore and Larry Turner. Honorary pallbearers are Roger Robinette, Bill Matney, Fred White and Courtney Lewis. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday, October 10, 2009.

Published by Roanoke Times on Oct. 10, 2009.