Local obituaries for J.T. Morriss & Son Funeral Home
Amy Holt
Oct 20, 2007
Amy Mosley Hawkins Holt of Church Road passed away October 20, 2007. She was the daughter of the late Ernest Scott Mosley and Albertha Thomas Mosley Julian and the widow of Albert Lloyd Hawkins and Dr. Mark Edgar Holt, Jr. She was a charter member of Dinwiddie Baptist Church, a member of the Gideonâ??s Auxiliary and was active in Christian...
Harry Sr. Middleton
Oct 19, 2007
Harry Lewis Middleton, Sr., age 71, of Colonial Heights, VA, died on Friday, October 19, 2007. He was preceded in death by a loving wife, Jean E. Middleton. Harry was an avid hunter and outdoorsman, and was a well known auto mechanic in the tri cities area. He is survived by sons, Harry L. â??Toddâ? Middleton, Jr., and wife Jody...
Betty Vaughan
Oct 18, 2007
Betty Copeland Vaughan, 66, of Petersburg died Thursday, October 18, 2007 at Southside regional Medical Center. She was preceded in death by her parents, John A. and Isabelle Andrews Copeland; husband, Richard L. Vaughan and her daughter, Martha Ellen Vaughan. She is survived by her brother, John Copeland and wife, Debbie and their granddaughter, Corie; sister, Martha Copeland Gates and...
Jr., Mark E. Holt
Oct 17, 2007
Dr. Mark Edgar Holt, Jr., of Church Road died Tuesday, October 16, 2007. He was born March 11, 1922 in Petersburg, Virginia, son of the late Miriam Bulifant and Mark Edgar Holt, Sr. Mark graduated from Petersburg City Schools and was a member of The Virginia Military Institute Class of 1943. Upon graduation from The University of Virginia Medical School...
Cameron Moore
Oct 17, 2007
Cameron Lee Moore, 16, went home to be with the Lord Wednesday, October 17, 2007. Cameron was the beloved son of William Thomas Moore of Prince George and Rebecca Scott Bogese of Surry. He was a student at Clements Junior High School, Prince George County. He is survived by his parents; his step-father, George â??Jimmyâ? Bogese, III; his older brother,...
James Jennings
Oct 16, 2007
James Reginald â??Regieâ? Jennings, 59, of Petersburg died Monday, October 15, 2007 at his residence. He was born in Petersburg and had been a life long resident of the tri-city area. Mr. Jennings was a retired master plumber who was self employed. He was preceded in death by his father, Lewis L. Jennings, Sr. Mr. Jennings is survived by a...
Willie Blalock
Oct 16, 2007
Willie A. Blalock â??Jackieâ?, 66, of Petersburg, went to be with the Lord Tuesday, October 16, 2007 at Southside Regional Medical Center. She was a native of Petersburg and the daughter of the late Weldon L. and Alice Wilson Atkins. She was a dedicated member of Lakemont Baptist Church. She is survived by her husband, James Blalock; three daughters, Wonda...
Jr., D. Shackleford
Oct 15, 2007
Gordon Deshler Shackelford, Jr., 80, of Petersburg, passed away Monday October 15, 2007. He was the son of the late Gordon D. Sr., & Alice Quicke Shackelford. He attended VMI prior to serving in the United States Army. Upon discharge from the Army he attended and graduated from Randolph Macon College, where he was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma...
Kathryn Saunders
Oct 15, 2007
Ivor, Virginia Kathryn Pittman Saunders, 81, passed away Sunday, October 14, 2007 at Sentara Obici Hospital in Suffolk, Virginia. The youngest of ten children, she was born in Ivor, VA to the late Ernest W. Pittman and Mabel Gertrude Williams Pittman. Kathryn was a retired vice president of the Bank of Sussex and Surry; was a member of the WMU...
Renee Dewell
Oct 15, 2007
Renee Freed Dewell, 89 of Prince George Co., passed away Monday, October 15, 2007 at Southside Regional Medical Center. She was a native of England and the daughter of the late Edwin Charles and May Victoria Watkins Freed. She was the widow of John Robert Dewell, Sr. She is survived by her son, John R. Dewell, Jr. and wife, JoAnn;...
Vivian Jones
Oct 15, 2007
Vivian Mae Jones, 85, of Chester, Virginia passed away Monday, October 15, 2007. She was the daughter of Willie Newman & Naomi Sheffield Williams and the widow of Roland Page Jones. She was a longtime active member of Elm Street Baptist Church in Petersburg, member of the Ruth Bible Class, and performed numerous other church activities, and a loving Christian...
Mary L. Creath
Oct 14, 2007
Mary Elizabeth Lawson Creath, 93, of Church Road, VA passed away peacefully on Sunday, October 14, 2007. She was born November 30, 1913 in South Boston, VA. She was a longtime resident of Church Road, VA; graduated from Meredith College, Raleigh, NC with a Teaching degree; was an elementary school teacher at Midway and Northside Schools in Church Road, VA;...
Helga Greenwood
Oct 14, 2007
Greenwood, Helga Emilia Seastrom, 102, of Chesterfield, died October 14, 2007. Helga, the widow of Richard Stephen Greenwood, Sr., was the eighth of twelve children born to Viktor Sjostrom and Maria Soderlund Sjostrom in Mariehamn, Aland, Finland. She emigrated to Massachusetts as a teenager and became a citizen of the United States. While she was learning English, she worked as...
Denise Frantz
Oct 13, 2007
Denise Louise Frantz, 51 years of age, passed away on Saturday, October 13, 2007. The daughter of Edgar P. (Henry) Frantz of Hopewell, Denise resided in Hopewell all of her life. She attended the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind in Staunton, VA. She was a participant at the Southside Sheltered Workshop in Petersburg, VA for many years. She...
Virginia Walker
Oct 12, 2007
Virginia Riddle Walker, 77, of Prince George died Friday, October 12, 2007 in John Randolph Medical Center. She was born in Prince George County and had been a lifetime resident. Mrs. Walker was the daughter of the late Clifton E. and Minnie Harrison Riddle and the widow of Jack Bond Walker. She is survived by two sons, Ronald Francis Walker...
James Lewis
Oct 9, 2007
James Rhodes Lewis, of Petersburg, Virginia died Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at his home. He was born on October 13, 1908 in Birmingham, Alabama to the late Esther Watts Lewis Zimmer and James Rhodes Lewis. He spent most of his life in Petersburg. He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Anne Bundy Lewis; a daughter, Ellen Reid Thurman;...
Arlene Marchiano
Oct 9, 2007
Ruth Arlene Marchiano, 80 of Petersburg died Tuesday, October 9, 2007 at Beverly Health Care Center. She was the daughter of the late Clyde and Ruth Slade Bowman. She was the widow of Vincent Marchiano. She is survived by two sons, Richard L. Marchiano and wife, Marsha of Colonial Heights and Vince W. Marchiano and wife, Kathy of Petersburg; five...
Marjorie Batts
Oct 8, 2007
Marjorie Diana Batts, affectionately known as â??Dianeâ?, departed this life on Sunday, October 7, 2007 after a period of illness. Diane was born to Charles Linwood Turner and Cornelia Brooks Turner on August 29, 1946 in Petersburg, Virginia. Diane graduated from Peabody High School in 1964, and was employed for 37 years at Allied Signal Corporation, now Honeywell. She was...
Thomas Harvey
Oct 8, 2007
Thomas Eddie Harvey, 50, of Colonial Heights, Virginia, died on October 8, 2007. He was born on May 13, 1957, in Richmond, Virginia to Thomas W. Harvey, Sr., and the late Elma Jean Davis. Mr. Harvey is survived by brothers Alan Harvey, and wife Wanda, of Chesterfield, VA, Thomas W. Harvey Jr., and wife Mary Jane, of Dinwiddie, VA, Ricky...
Gladys Bischoff
Oct 8, 2007
Gladys Margaret Bischoff passed away peacefully at home, Chester, VA, on October 8, 2007. She was born December 25, 1927 in Geneva, Idaho to David Bischoff and Minnie Lashbrook Bischoff. Born into a family of 12 siblings, she is preceded in death by her parents, David and Minnie Bischoff; brothers, Claude, Archie, Georgie, Willis, Lorraine (Ray), Douglas, and Deâ??Orr and...
