MCDOWELL, VA - Alvin Dwayne Harkleroad, 84 of McDowell peacefully transitioned from his earthly home in Virginia to his heavenly eternal home on January 14, 2021. At the time of his passing he was lovingly surrounded by his wife Jo-Ann, his daughter Franny Neil, and Pastor George Etling.
Dwayne was born on August 11, 1936, in Johnson City, Tennessee, a son of the late Beulah Dean Stone and Alvin Lee Harkleroad. On December 27, 1960, he married the love of his life Jo-Ann Decker in a candlelight communion service at St. Johns Methodist Church in North Springfield, Virginia.
Dwayne will be remembered as a good and faithful Christian servant. He responded to the invitation of Jesus as a pre-teen and lived a life embodied by Christian values and service. We celebrate his life; his accomplishments and the impact that he left on those that knew and loved him.