Virginia Goodrich

Virginia Goodrich of Burrowsville passed away on Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at Riverview on the James Nursing Home in Hopewell. She was born in Elberon in Surry County on October 14, 1909. She was preceded in death by her mother and father, Eudora Dorothy Pond and John Tobias Price of Surry County. She was preceded in death by her sister, Lizzie Price Cornwell of Tucson, Arizona and brothers, John Lee Price and Robert Wilton Price of Brandon in Prince George County and Eugene Franklin Price of Windsor, NC. She was preceded in death by her husband, Willie Benjamin Goodrich, Sr. and her only son, Willie Benjamin Goodrich, Jr. She is survived by her daughter-in-law, Barbara Riddle Goodrich and two grandchildren, Kimberly Jane Goodrich and Willie Benjamin Goodrich, III, all of Burrowsville. She is survived by nieces and nephews, John Wilton Price and wife Marian of Prince George, Robert Courtney Price and wife Lill of Prince George, Eugene Franklin Price, Jr. and wife Janet of Windsor, NC. and Elizabeth Price Peele of Pine Knoll Shores, NC. Virginia was a lifelong member of Martinâ??s Brandon Episcopal Church in Burrowsville where she shared a special friendship with Brian and Mary Hobden of Las Cruces, New Mexico. Willie and Virginia operated Goodrich Service Station in Burrowsville for most of their lives and enjoyed weekends at the old Brandon Hunt Club on the James River with friends Cameron, Gertrude and Jimmy Olgers and Harrison and Myrtie Livesay. In later years, Virginia also shared a special friendship with David and Betty Whitley of Hopewell. A funeral service will be held Friday, March 13, 2009 in the Hopewell Chapel of J. T. Morriss & Son Funeral Home at 11:00 am with The Rev. Macon Walton, rector of Martinâ??s Brandon Episcopal Church, officiating. Interment will be in the church cemetery , Burrowsville. The family will receive friends 1 hour prior to funeral service . Memorial contributions may be made to the Memorial Fund at Martinâ??s Brandon Episcopal Church, 18705 James River Drive Disputanta, Va, 23842. Condolences may be registered with www.jtmorriss.com