Local obituaries for J.T. Morriss & Son Funeral Home
Lola Gregory
Nov 4, 2005
Lola Creasy ?BeBe? Gregory, 101, of Hopewell, widow of Charles Newton Gregory, passed away Friday, November 4, 2005 at John Randolph Medical Center. Born in Shawsville, VA, she was the oldest of five children of the late James Milton and Ida Helm Creasy. She worked at the Hopewell and Petersburg Telephone Company for many years, was a charter member of...
Oscar Edwards
Nov 3, 2005
Oscar Lee Edwards, 64, of Sutherland died Thursday, November 03, 2005 at his home. He was born in Pitt Co., NC and was the son of the late Kinchen R. and Ruby Gay Edwards. He worked for Parker Oil Co. for many years and was very active in community affairs. He is survived by his wife, Joan M. Edwards; four...
Deanna "Dee" Ridings
Nov 3, 2005
Wakefield, Virginia DEANNA ?DEE? COURSEY RIDINGS, 65, passed away after a long illness Tuesday, November 1, 2005. She and her husband, Willey ?Butch? Ridings, had resided in Wakefield for four years and were preparing to make their home in Alabama. Born in Long Beach, California she was the daughter of Claude Coursey and the late Leola Dobson Coursey. She retired...
Mildred Irvine
Nov 3, 2005
Mildred T. Irvine, 82 of Homosassa, Florida died Thursday, November 3, 2005 at Cypress Cove Care Center in Crystal River, Fla. She was born April 10, 1923 to Fran Orby and Ruth (Kirkham) Tate in Petersburg and came to this area 3 months ago from Seneca, SC. She was a member of the Wesley United Methodist Church in Colonial Heights....
Sr., Wesley Harrell
Nov 2, 2005
Virginia Beach, Virginia William Wesley Harrell, Sr., 77, was called into the nearer presence of Christ on Tuesday, November 1, 2005. He was born November 20, 1927 in Princess Anne County, Virginia, the son of the late Cleon W. Harrell and Mabel Miller Harrell. Mr. Harrell was a simple, quiet and loving husband, father and grandfather. He had been a...
Edison Honaker
Nov 2, 2005
Edison Marshall ?Eddie? Honaker, 65, of Hopewell died Wednesday, November 2, 2005 in John Randolph Medical Center. Mr. Honaker was born in Union, West Virginia and had been a resident of Hopewell since 1970. He was a member of the American Legion, Post #146, a member of IBEW Union #666, served in the U.S. Army and was a retired electrician...
Grace Caricofe
Nov 1, 2005
Grace Minshew Caricofe, 94, of Hopewell died Tuesday, November 1, 2005 in John Randolph Nursing Home. She was born in Homerville, GA and was a resident of Hopewell for many years. Mrs. Caricofe was the daughter of the late Isaac & Sarah Griffis Minshew and the widow of Charles Earnest Caricofe. She is survived by a son, Earnest J. Caricofe...
Elsie Bresko
Oct 31, 2005
Elsie Tomko Bresko, 96, of Prince George County, widow of Paul H. Bresko, passed away Monday, October 31, 2005 at the home of her daughter, Linda B. Griffith and husband, John, where she resided. Born in Disputanta, she was the daughter of the late John and Mary Kraynak Tomko. She was a longtime member of the Bethlehem Congregational Church where...
Ethel Sumners
Oct 31, 2005
Ethel Gertrude Norwood Hughes Sumners, 90 passed away Monday, October 31, 2005 in John Randolph Nursing Home. She is preceded in death by her parents, Tillie Leigh and John Henry Norwood, brothers, William, Arthur, Johnny, and Robert and a sister, Ruth. She is survived by four daughters, Lynne Jones, Gloria Nowell, both of Chester, Linda Pevan of Olympia, Washington and...
Jr. D. Pecht
Oct 30, 2005
Lester David Pecht, Jr. 69, of Dinwiddie died Sunday, October 30, 2005. He was the son of Josephine Swain Pecht and the late Lester David Pecht, Sr. He was a retired operator for Firestone and was a veteran of the U.S. Army. Other than his mother, he is survived by a daughter, Edna-Jo Pecht Spain and her husband Jerry, a...
Edward Williams
Oct 30, 2005
Edward Bracey Williams, 76, died Sunday, October 30, 2005. He was a native of Dinwiddie County and the son of the late Everett and Annie Nash Williams. He was predeceased by three sisters, Mary W. Duval, Mildred W. Bolte and Elizabeth W. Martin and four brothers, Sidney, Ralph, James and Nash Williams. Mr. Williams was a Korean War Veteran in...
Mary Abernathy
Oct 29, 2005
Mary Martin Abernathy, 85, of Dinwiddie, Virginia, died on Saturday, October 29, 2005 at Hopewell Health Care Center in Hopewell, Virginia. Mary was a member of Western Heights Baptist Church in Dinwiddie and a retired nurse from Petersburg General. She was born in Brunswick County to Capas and Martha Pritchette Martin and was the widow of Alfred Tudor Abernathy. In...
David Horne
Oct 28, 2005
David B. Horne, 47, of Dinwiddie, died Friday, October 28, 2005. He was born in Petersburg and was preceded in death by his parents, Albert and Mary Ruth Brockwell Horne and his brother, Johnny Horne. He was a truck driver for Food Lion Distribution Center. He is survived by his wife, Lorraine ?Boopsie? Horne; four children, Donald Horne, Amy Langley,...
John Slaughter
Oct 28, 2005
John M. Slaughter, 72, of Petersburg, died Friday October 28. He was the son of the late James Garland and Clara Denson Slaughter and was predeceased by his loving wife, Charlotte B. Slaughter, a son; Michael Lee Slaughter, a brother Ernest Slaughter and a sister Linda Mason. Mr. Slaughter was a self employed brick mason and lived in Petersburg most...
Ernestine Oliver
Oct 28, 2005
Mrs. Ernestine Meiggs ?Tina? Oliver, 82, of Richmond, died Friday, October 28, 2005 at her residence. She was born in Coinjock, North Carolina and was a former Ivor Street resident in Hopewell. Mrs. Oliver was an active member of Merchants Hope Episcopal Church and a retired supply management officer with Defense General Supply at Bellwood. She was preceded in death...
Ben Ellis
Oct 26, 2005
Ben Ardell Ellis, 91, a retired sheet metal mechanic and World War II Army veteran, died early Wednesday morning, October 26 in Southside Regional Medical Center of complications from a stroke and pneumonia. Mr. Ellis had lived in Dinwiddie County since 1964, but since suffering a heart attack in February he had been a resident at Waverly Healthcare Center in...
Beulah Earhart
Oct 26, 2005
Beulah W. Earhart, 74, a long time resident of Church Road, VA died Wednesday, October 26, 2005. She was the daughter of the late James Samuel and Sadie Carter Watson. She is survived by a son, Steven P. Earhart, a granddaughter, Jessica M. Earhart and her mother, Debra D. Earhart, two sisters, Lucille W. Woodlief of Dinwiddie, VA and Shelia...
Frank J.
Oct 24, 2005
Frank James Fox, 72, of Colonial Heights, passed away Monday, October 24, 2005. Born in Rockbridge County, VA, he was the son of the late Everet Hunter and Viola Wood Fox. He is survived by his friend and caregiver, Joan M. Bowe of Colonial Heights and numerous nieces and nephews. A graveside funeral service will be held at 2:00 PM...
Billy Adams
Oct 22, 2005
Billy Eugene Adams, 84, of Hopewell, Va. passed from this life into the loving arms of his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ at his home. Billy was born in Auburn, W. VA., the son of the late George William and Laura Garrison Adams, and was preceded in death by his sister Katy Adams Vanderpool. He is survived by his wife...
Michelle Love
Oct 21, 2005
Michelle Lynn Love, 41, of Waverly, passed away Friday, October 21, 2005 at her residence after a long illness. She is survived by her husband, Bruce Love; her daughters, Karen Love and Charity Love; her son, Shane Whitlow; her parents, Ruth and William Eason, Sr.; her sisters, Debbie Sanderson and Diana Eason and her husband, William Eason, Jr.; her brothers,...
