Local obituaries for J.T. Morriss & Son Funeral Home
William Munford
Apr 17, 2007
William Hardy Munford, 76, of Kill Devil Hills, NC, formerly of Petersburg, passed away Tuesday, April 17, 2007. Born in Windsor, VA, he was the son of the late Matthew and Susie Comes Munford. He was a U. S. Navy veteran serving aboard the U.S.S. F.D. Roosevelt and was a retired employee of Brown & Williamson Tobacco Company. Mr. Munford...
Floyd Dudley
Apr 17, 2007
Floyd Alvis Dudley, 81, a lifelong resident of Petersburg, passed away Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at his residence. He was the son of the late William A. Dudley, Sr. and Annie Alvis Dudley. He served in the U. S. Army during World War II and saw extensive combat action in the Pacific Theater. He received an honorable discharge at the...
Frances Bufford
Apr 17, 2007
Frances Bell Bufford, age 93, of Chester, VA passed away on Tuesday, April 17, 2007. She was born in Comet, VA the daughter of the late Ollie L. and Erscell Atkinson Bell. Mrs. Bufford was retired from C & P Telephone as a supervisor after 35 years of service. She was a loving wife, mother and grandmother. She was preceded...
John Perkins
Apr 17, 2007
John Edward Perkins, 81, of Hopewell died Tuesday, April 17, 2007 at his residence. Mr. Perkins was a life time resident of Hopewell. He was retired from the United States Coast Guard, was a Deacon Emeritus at Unity Baptist Church, and was a retired operator from Allied Chemical Corporation. Mr. Perkins was the son of the late Thomas Edward and...
James Sr. Grooms
Apr 16, 2007
James T. â??Tommyâ? Grooms, Sr., 67 passed away April 16, 2007. He was a Navy Veteran and Reynolds Metals retiree with over 30 years of dedicated service. Preceding him in death were his mother, Margaret L. (Grooms) Traude and father, Charles C. Grooms. Survivors include his daughters, Wendy Grooms Little, Julie Anne Grooms, Kimberly Paige Grooms and son, James T....
Paul Hendrickson
Apr 16, 2007
Paul W. Hendrickson, 90, died April 16, 2007. He is survived by his wife of 64 years, Mary; his daughter, Gloria Bradmon, her husband Tom; a son Paul W. Hendrickson, his wife Sharon. Additional survivors include 5 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren. Paul was a WWII Pearl Harbor survivor, a retired employee of the Chessie Railroad System, a member of the...
Matthew Collier
Apr 15, 2007
Matthew Michael Collier, 23, of Dinwiddie, died Sunday, April 15, at the Medical College of Virginia. He was a member of the Loyal Order of the Moose and was a dedicated employee of the Hopewell Moose Lodge. Mr. Collier is survived by his mother, Karen Walkup Collier, and Clint Whittington of Dinwiddie, his father, Michael Rimel Collier of Waverly, several...
Mary Clarke
Apr 14, 2007
Waverly, Virginia Mary West Clarke, age 99, a lifelong resident of Sussex County and the widow of Robert Harold Clarke, died Saturday, April 14, 2007 at Waverly Healthcare Center. Born on December 7, 1907, she was the daughter of the late Mack Herbert West and Bessie Dillard West. Mary was a homemaker and a retired employee of Dominion Virginia Power...
Lillian Stewart
Apr 14, 2007
Dendron, Virginia Lillian Gwaltney Stewart, 84, passed away Friday, April 13, 2007 at Waverly Healthcare Center in Waverly, VA. Born in Surry County, VA she was the daughter of the late Charlie Cox Gwaltney and Emma Durphy Gwaltney. She was the wife of John Shelton Stewart, Jr. Lillian attended Claremont High School; was past news correspondent in the Dendron area...
James Sizemore
Apr 13, 2007
James Thomas â??Jimmyâ? Sizemore, 69, of Hopewell died April 13, 2007 at John Randolph Medical Center. He was the son of the late Delbert and Vivian White Sizemore and the brother of the late Helen Riley. Jimmy retired from Allied Signal after 33 years of service. He attended Faith Baptist Church in Prince George and served his country in the...
Daniel A
Apr 13, 2007
Daniel Alfred Mis, 72, of Richmond, VA, passed away Friday, April 13, 2007. Born in North Tonawanda, NY, he was the son of the late Thomas and Helen Kozlowski Mis. He retired after 23 years of service in the U. S. Navy and later worked for the public school system in Lansdale, PA. Mr. Mis is survived by his daughters,...
Donald Clemons
Apr 13, 2007
Donald James Clemons, age 62, of Chester, VA passed away on Friday, April 13, 2007. He was born in Youngstown, Ohio the son of the late Paul and Ruth Clemons. Mr. Clemons was retired from the U.S. Army, a member of the American Legion Memorial Post 146, Hopewell as 2nd Vice Commander, and was chairman of Americanism. He was also...
David Pittman
Apr 12, 2007
David Rudolf Pittman, 57, of Chesterfield County, died Thursday, April 12, 2007. Born in Washington D.C., he was the son of the late David James Pittman and Christine Unfug Webster. He served in the U. S. Air Force during the Vietnam Era specializing in communications. Following his military service, he spent the remainder of his life writing for various area...
John Raiford
Apr 12, 2007
Nags Head, NC John Calvin Raiford, 80, a former resident of Alexandria, VA. and a resident of Nags Head, NC since 1992, passed away at his home on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 with his family by his side. Born in Southampton County, VA, he was the son of the late Philip Malone Raiford and Otelia West Raiford. He was a...
Joseph Buettner
Apr 11, 2007
Joseph Richard Buettner, 84, of Petersburg, died Wednesday, April 11, 2007, born in Syracuse, NY in 1922, the son of the late Joseph Richard, Sr. and Catherine James Buettner. He was a graduate of Marcellus (NY) High School and Syracuse University, where he earned B.A. and M.S. degrees. Mr. Buettner served in the U.S. Army in World War II and...
Juanita Atkinson
Apr 11, 2007
Juanita Howard Atkinson, 84, of Chesterfield died Wednesday, April 11, 2007. She was born the daughter of the late Tazewell E. and Bertha I. Howard. She is survived by her husband Charles R. Atkinson; three daughters Nancy A. Dillon and husband Richard, Judy A. Bess and husband Rae, and Gloria A. Strang and husband Raymond; five grandchildren Carol Umbenour and...
Midred Griswold
Apr 10, 2007
Mildred Clements Griswold of Petersburg, died Tuesday, April 10, 2007, born on June 28, 1920 in Petersburg, as the second daughter of Judge Edwin Fenton Clements and Mary Wilson Coleman. Her two siblings were, Mary Louise Clements Brooks, of Virginia Beach, Virginia and the late Edwin M. Clements of Louisville, Kentucky. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Richmond...
Hilda Burke
Apr 9, 2007
Hilda Jenkins Burke, age 76, of Richmond, VA went to be with her Lord on Monday, April 9, 2007. She was born in Washington, VA the daughter of the late Golden and Lena Fincham Jenkins. She was a loving and caring wife, mother, grandmother and great grandmother. Mrs. Burke was retired from Allied Chemical after 20 plus years of employment...
Addie Haynes
Apr 9, 2007
Addie Elizabeth Haynes, 82, of Hopewell, widow of Eugene Haynes, passed away Monday, April 09, 2007. Born in Prince George, she was the daughter of the late James Everett and Lelia Corner Jackson. She was a lifelong member of Rosewood Presbyterian Church and a retired bookkeeper for R. H. Joel Jewelry Store and Temple Avenue (Palmerâ??s) Service Center in Colonial...
Bonnie Fenessy
Apr 9, 2007
Bonnie Norain Zeh Fenessy, 88, of Hopewell, widow of Joseph Fenessy, passed away Monday, April 09, 2007. Born in Waynesboro, she was the daughter of the late David A. and Ethel Humphrey Zeh. She was a longtime member of Wesley United Methodist Church in Hopewell. She is survived by a son, J. D. Fenessy and wife, Anne Terrell of Prince...
