Tamela Strock Stuart

January 27, 1958 - January 12, 2025

TAMELA STROCK STUART, 66, of the Mechanicsburg Community of Bland, VA, passed away Sunday, January 12, 2025 after enduring a courageous ongoing battle with cancer for many years. 

She was born January 27, 1958 in Pulaski, VA, the daughter of the late Harry & “Frankie” Strock.

Tammy was a member of the Mechanicsburg Christian Church.  

She enjoyed farming with her husband, Robbie. She was a lover of all animals, especially horses. She enjoyed riding horses and was proud of teaching her daughter the love for riding and showing horses.  She enjoyed watching the wild birds come and go at  her feeders. She also enjoyed puzzles. 

She loved her family. She especially loved her grandchildren and would attend her grandsons sporting events  and enjoyed watching her granddaughter learn to ride horses. She will be remembered for courage, her strength and her unconditional love for her family and she will be greatly missed by those who loved her.

Tammy was preceded in death by her parents, Harry Price & Margaret Frances (“Frankie”) Durham Strock and her niece, Sarah Wellford.

Left to cherish her memory are her loving husband of 48 years, Robert Stuart; her children, Hunter & Caroline Stuart and Kendell & Nicole Lewis; her beloved grandchildren, Tadley, Jobee and Charli; her siblings, Alan & Iris Strock and Sharon & Terry Gordon; her mother-in-law & father-in-law, Dare & Harry Dillman;  her sister-in-law and brother-in-law, Judi Stuart and Stan Wellford and several aunts, nieces, nephews, cousins and a large extended family. 

Funeral services will be held Friday, January 17, 2025 at 12:00 P.M. at A. Vest & Sons Funeral Home Chapel, White Gate, with Pastor Tom Maurer officiating. Burial will follow in Mechanicsburg Cemetery.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Thursday evening, January 16, 2025 from 4:00 P.M. until 7:00 P.M.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorial donations be made in Tammy’s honor to the Mechanicsburg Cemetery Fund, c/o Lenora Chewning, 9011 E. Blue Grass Trail, Bland, VA, 24315.

The Stuart family is in the care of A. Vest & Sons Funeral Home, White Gate, avestandsons.com, (540) 921-2985.