Local obituaries for J.T. Morriss & Son Funeral Home
Billy Thompson
Jun 11, 2007
Billy Sunday Thompson from Earth to Heaven, Amazing Grace! How sweet the sound, that saved a wretch like me! age 81, of Richmond, VA passed away on Monday, June 11, 2007. He was a veteran of the US Navy and served in WWII. He is survived by a son, Ernest Robert Thompson and wife Linda of Chester; brothers, Kenneth Thompson...
Douglas Reule
Jun 10, 2007
Douglas Gene Reule, 44, of Harrisonburg, Virginia, died Sunday, June 10, 2007, at Rockingham Memorial Hospital. Mr. Reule was born in Lyons, New York. He was preceded in death by a brother, Thomas L. Reule. Survivors include a son, Shawn A. Reule of Harrisonburg, Virginia; a daughter Jessica D. Reule of Hopewell; his father, Thomas E. Reule, of Gloucester Point,...
Raymond Griffith
Jun 10, 2007
E.Raymond E. Griffith, Sr., 77, of Hopewell, Virginia, died Saturday, June 9, 2007, at John Randolph Medical Center after a long and courageous battle with lung and heart disease. Born June 24, 1929, in Hopewell, he was the son of the late Joseph and Mary Griffith. A member of VFW Post #637, Mr. Griffith was a Korean War veteran who...
William Umstead,Jr.
Jun 10, 2007
William Francis Umstead, Jr., 64, of Hopewell, passed away peacefully surrounded by his loving family, Sunday, June 10, 2007. Mr. Umstead was a retired lab technician with Honeywell Inc. He was preceded in death by his parents, William F. Sr. and Arlene Beasley Umstead and a brother, Joseph Umstead. Mr. Umstead is survived by his wife, Helen Louise Umstead of...
Howard Goldman
Jun 9, 2007
Howard Elmer Goldman 56, of Richmond, went to be with our Lord, Saturday June 9, 2007. He was the son of the late Elmer & Jessie Elizabeth Bird Goldman and was employed with Castle Equipment as a Service Technician. He is survived by a sister: Patsy Oâ??Brien & her husband, Robert, a brother Charles Goldman and his wife, Elson, all...
John Chabinak
Jun 9, 2007
John Hans Chabinak, 48, of Colonial Heights died on Saturday, June 9, 2007. He was the son of the late John and Ester Chabinak. John served the community of Petersburg in the Bureau of Police for over 26 years. Having obtained the grade of Inspector assigned to document services and fugitive recovery. John served in many positions with the Bureau...
Jeffrey Keezel
Jun 8, 2007
Jeffrey Keith Keezel, 52, succumbed to cancer on June 8th. He goes ahead of us to our Lord to prepare a place for us and continues to watch over us. He is survived by his wife Teresa and his children Rebecca & Nathaniel. For nearly 30 yrs. He served at Union Theo Seminary. He lived a wonderful husband, a very...
David Barrett
Jun 8, 2007
David S. Barrett â??Uncle Daveâ? 67, of Chesterfield, passed away Friday, June 8, 2007. He was the son of the late James Monroe & Evie Poston Barrett, and was retired from the Chesterfield County School System as a mechanic. He is survived by his wife of 28 years Sandra K. Barrett, brother-in-law: Mike Koogler & Fiancée Kelly Myers, close friends...
Anna Decker
Jun 8, 2007
Courtland, Virginia ANNA DECKER, 76, a resident of Courtland, Virginia, passed away Friday, June 08, 2007 at Southampton Memorial Hospital, Franklin, VA. She was the daughter of the late Robert Gardner and Margaret Uzzell Gardner. Ms. Decker is survived by two sons, Thomas Whitfield and his wife, Susan, of Decatur, GA., and William Whitfield of Richmond, VA. Graveside services will...
Albert Dyson
Jun 7, 2007
Albert G. â??Jimâ? Dyson 73 of Sutherland died Thursday, June 7, 2007. He was the son of the late Hunter Gibson Dyson and Dora Traylor Dyson. Jim was preceded in death by his wife, Barbara Procise Dyson and brothers, William F. â??Dumpâ? Dyson and Hunter F. â??Ikeâ? Dyson. He worked at Allied Chemical Cooperation, B plant for 25 years and...
Emma Fortune
Jun 7, 2007
Emma Marie Fortune, age 58, of Stoney Creek, VA passed away on Thursday, June 7, 2007. She was born in Clayton, NC the daughter of the late Paul Earnest Johnson and Mavis Lee Fawler Johnson. She was preceded in death by a sister, Annie Ruth McCoy. She is survived by her husband, James M. Fortune; daughters, Amanda Rae Price and...
Wanda Ashburn
Jun 7, 2007
Wanda Lee â??Sueâ? Ashburn, 80, of Prince George County, died, Thursday, June 7, 2007 She was born in Malvern, Ark. Mrs. Ashburn was a homemaker, a member of the VFW Ladies Auxiliary, American Legion Post 174 Ladies Auxiliary, Palmyra, Missouri and a member of St. Josephâ??s Catholic Church, Petersburg. She was the daughter of the late James A. and Bernice...
Sr. Pyle
Jun 7, 2007
James David Pyle, Sr., age 62, of Richmond, VA passed away on Thursday, June 7, 2007. He was born in Mineral Co. WV. He was a veteran of the US Army and retired from Norfolk Southern Railroad in 1989. He is survived by two sons, James D. Pyle, Jr. and wife, Karen of Powhatan, VA and John W. Pyle and...
Olivia Lennon
Jun 6, 2007
Ivor, Virginia Olivia Stephenson Lennon, 87, of Ivor, VA, died Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at Consulate Healthcare, Windsor, VA after a long illness. She is survived by her husband of 59 years, John T. Lennon of Ivor; daughter, Celia Lennon Miller, son-in-law, James D. Miller and granddaughter, Rebecca Gray Miller, all of Richmond, VA.. She was preceded in death by...
Virginia Dillard
Jun 5, 2007
Virginia Belle Hedgebeth Dillard, 94, of Matoaca went home to be with her Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ on Tuesday, June 5, 2007. She was the daughter of the late Charles Columba and Martha Agnes Wilkerson Hedgepeth and the widow of James T. Dillard. She is survived by her sons, James S. Dillard and wife, Margaret, Robert C. Dillard and...
Ronald Webb
Jun 5, 2007
Webb, Ronald Edward, 73, of Chester, passed away June 5, 2007. He was born June 7, 1933, in Hillsville, Virginia, to William Crockett and Ruth DeHaven Webb. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Darlo S. Webb; children, Gary Webb and his wife Beth of Fredericksburg, Janice Schmidt and her husband, Scott, of Raleigh, NC, and Michael Webb...
Helen Ziegler
Jun 4, 2007
Helen B. Ziegler, 87, of Richmond died June 4, 2007 at Beaufont Health Care Center. She was a native of Dinwiddie and daughter of the late Andrew and Fannie Dasinger Benish. She was a retired Bookkeeper in the Banking industry. She is survived by a brother-in-law, Lt. Col. Retired Thomas McKeon of Tampa, FL; three nephews, Charles Coker and wife,...
Barbara Dale
Jun 4, 2007
Barbara Ann Dale, a retired Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist, passed away on June 4, 2007 after a long illness. She was the daughter of the late Annie B. & Bertram L. Dale. She was also predeceased by a brother, Bertram L. Dale, Jr. The family will receive friends at the Chesterfield Chapel of J.T. Morriss & Son Funeral Home &...
P. Whittle
Jun 3, 2007
Dr. Joseph Percivall Whittle, 87 of Petersburg died Sunday, June 3, 2007 at Southside Regional Medical Center. He was the son of the late Frances Fortesque and Margaret Ruth Percivall Whittle. He was a Army veteran of WWII. He received a BA degree at the University of Virginia and a MD degree at the University of Virginia Medical School and...
Patricia Crowder
Jun 3, 2007
Patricia Craft Crowder, 68, of Chester, Virginia, died Sunday, June 3, 2007 at Johnston-Willis Hospital, Richmond. Mrs. Crowder was preceded in death by her parents, Woodrow and Mildred Caldwell Craft. She is survived by her husband, Charles Edward Crowder of Chester, a daughter, Melissa Bitner, of Hopewell, a son, Andrew T. Crowder, of Chester and three grandchildren, Jenny, Kristy and...
