Local obituaries for J.T. Morriss & Son Funeral Home
James Morriss
Jan 4, 2008
James â??Jayâ? Tolleison Morriss V, 64, of Petersburg died Friday, January 4, 2008. He was a native of Petersburg born the son of the late J. T. Morriss IV and Sara Taylor Morriss. Jay was the President of J.T. Morriss & Son Funeral Home & Cremation Service. He received his BA degree from Randolph Macon College in 1966. As an...
Anne Griffith
Jan 3, 2008
Anne Peden Griffith, 86, of Hopewell, died January 3, 2008. She was born in Isle of Wight County and was a resident of Hopewell for many years Mrs. Griffith was a retired sales clerk for Sears & Roebuck Company and was a member of the Woodlawn Presbyterian Church. Mrs. Griffith was preceded in death by her parents, Ben and Estelle...
Shelby Armstrong
Jan 2, 2008
Shelby Ann Armstrong, age 63, of Sioux City, South Dakota, died on Wednesday, January 2, 2008. She was preceded in death by her mother Shelly Rackley Kennedy and her husband Vernon Armstrong. She is survived by her father Raymond Kennedy, daughters; Diana Michele Fisher and husband Fred, of Sioux City, IA, Pam McClanahan and husband Sean, of Des Moines, IA;...
Minerva Cox
Jan 2, 2008
Newport News, Virginia Minerva C. Cox, 100, passed away Tuesday, January 1, 2008 at James River Convalescent Center in Newport News, Virginia. Born in Wakefield, VA on December 22, 1907 she was the daughter of the late Emmett W. Carroll and Minerva White Carroll. Mrs. Cox was the widow of Beverly B. Cox, Jr. She was a retired real estate...
Clarence Kimbrell
Jan 2, 2008
Clarence Kimbrell, 90, of Hopewell, died Wednesday, January 2, 2008. He was born in Nauvoo, Alabama. He served in the U. S. Army during WWII and was a retired painter with Allied Chemical Corp., a member of The Loyal Order of Moose #1422 for 33years and a member of Powers Memorial Baptist Church. Mr. Kimbrell was the son of the...
Catherine Jackson
Jan 2, 2008
Catherine Bowman Jackson, 82, of Colonial Heights, widow of Claiborne Julius Jackson, passed away Wednesday, January 02, 2008 at her residence. Born in Ettrick, she was the daughter of the late Eugene and Josephine Hawkins Bowman. She was a longtime member of Ettrick Baptist Church. Mrs. Jackson is survived by a daughter, Shirley A. Jackson; son, Claiborne E. â??Geneâ? Jackson...
Martin Gloria
Jan 1, 2008
Martin Garibay Gloria, 74 of Petersburg died January 1, 2008. A native of Brady Texas, he was the son of the late Tomas V. and Florencia Garibay Gloria. He was predeceased by three brothers, Tomas Gloria, Marcos Gloria and Rodolfo Gloria. He served at the Fort Lee Quartermaster Corps for twenty three years in the petroleum department, followed by twenty...
Col Scott Mctague
Jan 1, 2008
Colonel Norman Scott McTague, of Prince George County, died Dec. 31, 2007, after a spirited contest with a number of illnesses. He was 86. For the past four years, he has been aided beyond measure by the skilled and compassionate care of Mrs. Mary Burrow, CNA, and his home health care provider. Col. McTague was born in Okmulgee, OK. He...
Jr. Bill Priddy
Dec 31, 2007
The Rev. Ernest C. â??Billâ? Priddy, Jr., 80, of Petersburg, passed away Monday, December 31, 2007. Rev. Priddy served Belmont, St. Luke and Asbury Memorial United Methodist Churches in Richmond prior to serving as District Superintendent of the Eastern Shore District. He later served as minister of Washington Street and Blandford United Methodist Churches in Petersburg. He was in the...
Eula Berryman
Dec 31, 2007
Surry, Virginia EULA BARHAM BERRYMAN, a resident of Smithfield Convalescent Home died Saturday, Dec. 29, 2007 at age 100. Born on July 12, 1907 in Isle of Wight, she was the daughter of John Isaac Barham and Alice Mae Scott Barham. A homemaker, she was the oldest member of Oak Grove United Methodist Church, Surry, and had served as treasurer...
Eula Berryman
Dec 29, 2007
EULA BARHAM BERRYMAN a resident Smithfield Convalescent Home died Saturday, Dec. 29, 2007 at age 100. Born on July 12, 1907 in Isle of Wight, she was the daughter of John Isaac Barham and Alice Mae Scott Barham. A homemaker, she was the oldest member of Oak Grove United Methodist Church, Surry and had served as treasurer of her Sunday...
Kimberly Malone
Dec 29, 2007
Kimberly Wright Malone, of Gloucester VA, formerly of Richmond died on Saturday, December 29, 2007. She was the daughter of the late William L. and Virginia Albright Wright. She is survived by her husband Ron Malone; step-father William Walton; Sister, Patricia Baltes, Linda Ritchey, Peggy Snyder, Lynn Dobson, Billye Livermore, and numerous cousins, Nieces and Nephews. The family will have...
Jerry Nutter
Dec 29, 2007
Jerry Allen Nutter, age 56, of Sutherland, VA died on Saturday, December 29, 2007. He was born in Quinwood, WV, the son of the late Arnold Nutter, and was also preceded in death by a wife, Kay Stover Nutter. Mr. Nutter was an active and devoted member of Colonial Heights Baptist Church, and he loved the Lord, his family, and...
Dorothy Lunsford
Dec 29, 2007
Dorothy Wood Lunsford, 92, of Colonial Heights died Saturday, December 29, 2007 at her residence. She was born in Petersburg the daughter of the late Waverly and Mary Boughan Lunsford. Ms. Lunsford was a graduate of the University of Virginia, where she received her nursing degree and later served her country in World War II as a Registered Nurse with...
Sr., D. Elmore
Dec 28, 2007
Joseph Davis Elmore, Sr., 83, of Petersburg passed away Friday, December 28, 2007. He was preceded in death by his wife of fifty-eight years, Ann Butterworth Hauser Elmore and his son, Joseph Davis Elmore, Jr. At the outbreak of WWII, Mr. Elmore left VA Tech to join the Navy and served in the Pacific Theatre. After the war, he returned...
Jack Perkinson
Dec 28, 2007
Jack Wright Perkinson, 85, of Petersburg died after an extended illness on Thursday, December 27, 2007. He was the son of the late Claiborne Francis and Mary Frances Perkinson. Jack served his country in the U. S. Navy as a Machinist First Class in the 72 Naval Construction Battalion. He was also a member of the Ettrick American Legion, a...
Harold Walpole
Dec 27, 2007
Harold Dean Walpole, 71, of Chester died Thursday, December 27, 2007 in Southside Regional Medical Center. He was born in Hermitage, TN and had been a long time resident of the Hopewell area. Mr. Walpole was a member of the Virginia National Guard, he attended the Virginia Mechanical Institute in Richmond and graduated from John Tyler Community College as a...
James Johnson
Dec 27, 2007
Ivor, Virginia James Franklin â??Buckâ? Johnson, III, 63, passed away Wednesday, December 26, 2007 at Southside Regional Medical Center, Petersburg, after a long illness. Born in Southampton County he was the son of the late James Franklin Johnson, Jr. and Evelyn Seward Johnson. Buck was a retired farmer, a past member of Ivor Vol. Rescue Squad, and a member of...
Louise Rickman
Dec 27, 2007
Louise Temple Rickman, 83, entered her heavenly home on December 27, 2007 after a long battle with Alzheimerâ??s disease. The youngest daughter of the late Arthur Drewery Temple and Laura Pansy Wells, Louise was born March 17, 1924 in Petersburg, Virginia and raised in Hopewell, Virginia. Lou was the widow of the late Joseph Oppel Rickman, Sr. She is survived...
Frances Roth
Dec 25, 2007
Frances P. Roth, 59, of Disputanta died Tuesday, December 25, 2007 at Southside Regional Medical Center. She was preceded in death by her parents, Joseph D. and Ruth Ramsey Pardue and a sister, Patricia Piotrowski. Mrs. Roth is survived by two sons, David J. Roth and his wife Carrie of Alabama, Douglas A. Roth and his wife Angela of Chester,...
