Local obituaries for J.T. Morriss & Son Funeral Home
Daisy Gladwell
May 7, 2006
Mrs. Daisy Virginia Gladwell, 84, of Hopewell, died Sunday, May 7, 2006, at Riverview on the Appomattox. Mrs. Gladwell was born in Bluefield, West Virginia. She was preceded in death by her parents, Thomas A. and Fanny Boyd Neal, her husband, Boyd Leonard Gladwell, two daughters, Brenda Sue Gladwell, and Carolyn D. Gladwell and a son, Russell G. Gladwell. Survivors...
Alan Baldwin
May 6, 2006
Alan Maurice Baldwin, 81, of Chesterfield, died Saturday, May 6, 2006 at MCV. He was born in Scottsdale, PA the son of the late Benjamin and Ursula Baldwin. Mr. Baldwin served in the United States Army Air Corps and was a former Prisoner of War in Germany and a Veteran of World War II. He is survived by his wife...
Ralph Smith
May 6, 2006
Ralph Augusta Smith, Jr., 71, of Hopewell, died Saturday, May 6, 2006 in Chippenham Medical Center. He was born in Hopewell. Mr. Smith was a member of First Baptist Church, a former fireman with Enon Volunteer Fire Department and a retired powerhouse supervisor with 41 years of service with Smurfit-Stone Container. He was the son of the late Ralph A....
Ann Mills
May 6, 2006
Ann Estelle Writt Mills, age 72 of Chester, VA died Saturday, May 6, 2006. She was a loving wife and caring mother and grandmother. Mrs. Mills was born in Shepherdstown, WV the daughter of the late Charles C. and Myrtle C. Writt. She is survived by a husband of fifty - four years, Rev. Franklin M. Mills; three children, Bonnie...
Elizabeth Dimarino
May 6, 2006
Elizabeth Ashley DiMarino, age 10, of Newport News, VA died on May 6, 2006. Not given much time on this earth, she nonetheless, embraced life to the fullest. She loved the outdoors and was more comfortable in a bathing suit or cut off shorts than anything else. Going to the river on boating trips with her family was where you...
Charlie Rathbone
May 6, 2006
Charlie Rathbone, 78, of Dinwiddie, VA, died Saturday, May 6, 2006 at his home. He was a native of Marshall, N.C. and was the son of the late Will and Lola Nash Rathbone. He was retired with 31 years of service from Brown & Williamson Tobacco Co. He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Pauline Moore Rathbone; one...
Robert Mccord
May 6, 2006
RICHMOND, VA Robert K. McCord, 86, passed away Friday, May 5, 2006, at St. Maryâ??s Hospital in Richmond. Born August 5, 1919, in Cincinnati, Ohio, he was the son of the late Clifford Goshen McCord and Alice Kyle McCord. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army and a retired City Manager of Emporia. Mr. McCord is survived by his...
Margaret Podruchny
May 6, 2006
Margaret Elizabeth Henderson Podruchny, 95, of Hopewell, VA widow of Daniel Charles Podruchny, died May 6,2 006 at River View on the Appomattox Nursing Home. She was the daughter of the late Willis Kirk and Agnes May Hager Henderson. Margaret was also preceded in death by four sisters. She leaves to cherish her memory and two stepdaughters, Myrtle Quesenberry of...
John Frazier
May 5, 2006
John Edward Frazier, 84, of Chester, VA died Friday, May 5, 2006 in Riverview on the Appomattox Nursing Home. He was a native of Amigo, West Virginia and was the son of the late Sanford Bernard & Maria Augusta Frazier. Mr. Frazier was a retired warehouse leader for the Army & Air Force Exchange Services. He is survived by his...
Benjamin Wells
May 4, 2006
Benjamin Carleton â??Peteâ? Wells, 69, of Sutherland, passed away Thursday, May 04, 2006. Born in Dinwiddie County, he was the son of the late Benjamin Franklin and Annie Vaughan Wells. He was a lifelong member of Ocran United Methodist Church, a retired machinist, working for many years at the E. E. Titus Machine Shop in Petersburg and was well known...
Inez Durphey
May 4, 2006
Inez Jackson Durphey, 95, of Center Line, Michigan, died peacefully on May 4, 2006, at Beaumont Hospital in Troy, Michigan, surrounded by her children and grandchildren. She was born November 19, 1910, to Charles & Bessie (Moody) Jackson, in Butterworth, Virginia. Mrs. Durphey was a homemaker who was instrumental in the move of ther family from Virginia in 1951 to...
David Spain
May 3, 2006
David Gary â??Buddyâ? Spain, Sr., 53, of Richmond, passed away Wednesday, May 03, 2006. He was the son of the late David L. and Joanne Tate Spain and the husband of the late Judy M. Spain. He is survived by his sons, Earl W. Spain and David G. Spain, Jr.; grandchildren, Zackary Spain, Cody Spain, Chelsea Spain, and David Leary...
Bobby Sommerfeldt
May 2, 2006
Ivor, Virginia Bobby Lee Sommerfeldt, 50, husband of Connie Lynn Kerr Sommerfeldt, passed away suddenly on Monday, May 1, 2006 at Southampton Memorial Hospital in Franklin, Virginia. Born March 24, 1956 in Japan, he was the son of Laverne Sommerfeldt of Disputanta and the late Hiroko Otsuka Sommerfeldt. He retired as a Machinists Mate Chief Petty Officer with the U....
Archie Kendrick
May 2, 2006
Archie James Kendrick, Sr, 84, of Hopewell passed away Tuesday morning, May 2, 2006 in River View on the Appomattox Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. He was preceded in death by his parents, Millard James and Pattie Towler Kendrick and his wife Rosa H. Kendrick. He is survived by two daughters, JoAnn K. Nye and her husband Kenneth, Pat K. Jenkins;...
John Johnson
May 2, 2006
John K. Johnson, of Deltaville, VA went home to the Lord on May 2, 2006. He was born in Allentown, PA on August 3, 1926, the son of Richard and Frances Johnson. He grew up in Chester, VA and has been living in Deltaville since 1990. He saw action in the Pacific in 1944 on the U.S.S. Auburn where he...
Eugene Turner
May 2, 2006
Eugene Milton Turner, 77, of Dinwiddie, widower of Laura M. Turner, died Tuesday, May 2, 2006 at John Randolph Medical Center. He was born in Surry County and was preceded in death by his parents, Charlie L. Turner, Sr. and Daisy Amos Turner and a twin sister, Eunice T. Francis. He was retired from Allied Chemical Corp. He is survived...
Gene Fuccella
May 1, 2006
Gene Darcey Fuccella, age 83, of Chester, VA died Monday, May 1, 2006. She was born in Huntington, WV and moved to the Richmond area early on in life. Her accomplishments include: graduate of Thomas Jefferson High School and Virginia Tech University; member of Richmond board of realtors; National Association of Realtors; Virginia Association of Realtors; Past President of Chester...
William Clark
May 1, 2006
Mr. William Theodore Clark, 62, of Hopewell, died Sunday, April 30, 2006 at his residence. Mr. Clark was born in Buena Vista, Virginia. He was a retired driver for UPS, a veteran of the United States Navy serving in Vietnam, and was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Mr. Clark was the son of...
Jr. L. Mayes
May 1, 2006
William Lester Mayes, Jr. age 82 of Petersburg died Monday, May 1, 2006. He was the son of the late William Lester, Sr. and Marie Gibbs Mayes and was also preceded in death by a sister, Mildred Jamerson of Appomattox. He is survived by his wife, Doris G. Mayes; four children, Ann Wright, Shirley Cornett and her husband John, James...
Jr. Bryant
May 1, 2006
Sidney Alfred Bryant, Jr., 78, of Chester, VA, died Sunday, April 30, 2006 at John Randolph Medical Center. Mr. Bryant was a retired maintenance worker for Firestone, served in the U.S. Army during World War II and was a member of Broadway Baptist Church, He was preceded in death by his parents, Sidney A. and Christine Truslow Bryant and a...
