Deborah Combs

Marion, Virginia

Deborah Ann Whitley Combs age 70, passed away Friday, March 14, 2025 at Valley Health Care Center, Chilhowie, Va. After a six year battle with different illnesses, she is healed forever.

Deborah was a big hearted woman who loved her family with every ounce of love she had. She was a wonderful wife, mother, nannie or nan to her family. Deborah worked as a CNA at Southwest Virginia Mental Health Institute. She loved to cook – and Bobby was quite often her guinea pig when she wanted to try out a new recipe. If she wasn’t working or cooking, Deborah loved to camp, square dance and listen to bluegrass. She was a member of Freedom Tabernacle Baptist Church and of the Red Hat Society; she was also a history buff, especially when it came to the Civil War. Deborah’s family and friends will miss her dearly.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Charles and Monnie Whitley; sisters, Rita Whitley and Myrtle Arnold.

Deborah is survived by her husband Robert “Bobby” Eugene Combs of Marion, Va.; children, Stephen Parks (Zaria) of Glade Spring, Va., Michael Parks (Jimandi) of Damascus, Va. and Julie Parks of Atkins, Va.; step children, Bobby Combs Jr, (Holly Pickle) of Marion, Va. and Rebecca Saltz of Chilhowie, Va.; sister, Lois Meador (Don) of Troutdale, Va.; nine grandchildren, Katie Parks, Melanie Parks, Owen Parks, Lane Parks, Casey Johnson, Kaley Clark, Abbie Parks, Allie Parks and Blake Clark; several great-grandchildren; several nieces, nephews and their families; and many loved extended family members.

The family will receive friends Wednesday, March 19, 2025 from 11 a.m. until 12 noon at Fraziers’ Seaver-Brown Chapel, 237 East Main Street, Marion, Va. Funeral services will begin at 12 noon with Pastor Mike Sage officiating. Burial will be private at Southwest Virginia Veterans Cemetery, 5550 Bagging Plant Road, Dublin, Va.

To share memories of Deborah Ann Whitley Combs, please visit www.seaverbrown.com. Care for Deborah has been entrusted to Fraziers’ Seaver-Brown Funeral Service & Crematory, 237 East Main Street, Marion VA 24354.