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Local obituaries for Farmville, VA and surrounding areas
Ricky Lee Companion
Oct 3, 2013
Ricky Lee Companion Sr. age 53 of Farmville , VA passed away on Thursday, October 3, 2013. He was born in Hopewell VA to Mary Dennis Companion and the late Joseph Companion, Sr. on February 28, 1960. He grew up in Farmville and always stayed very close to his mother and siblings. His favorite pass time was fishing, hunting, camping...
Ricky Lee Companion
Oct 3, 2013
Ricky Lee Companion Sr. age 53 of Farmville , VA passed away on Thursday, October 3, 2013. He was born in Hopewell VA to Mary Dennis Companion and the late Joseph Companion, Sr. on February 28, 1960. He grew up in Farmville and always stayed very close to his mother and siblings. His favorite pass time was fishing, hunting, camping...
Leonard R. Vogel
Oct 2, 2013
Leonard R. Vogel, 77 of Farmville, VA passed away at his home on Wednesday, October 2, 2013. He was born in Ashland, MA on October 22, 1935 to the late Anna Sheehey Vogel and Joseph Vogel. He retired from Raytheon in 1989. After retirement he enjoyed his garden, tending to his chickens and birds, hunting, deep sea fishing and spending...
Margaret Kachadoorian
Oct 2, 2013
Margaret Lydia Menendian Kachadoorian, widow of Leo Kachadoorian, passed away Wednesday October 2. She was born in Columbus, Ohio on March 28, 1919 to parents Keteon Aristotle Menendian and Isabel Papazian Menendian of Armenian descent. With two older brothers, Raymond and Ernest, Margaret was the apple of her father’s eye. A graduate of East High School (Columbus), Dennison University and...
Michael Wayne Burley
Sep 25, 2013
Michael Wayne Burley, 56 of Farmville, VA passed away at his home on Wednesday, September 25, 2013. He was born in Farmville on December 3, 1956 to the late Ruby Hatcher Burley and Walker R. Burley. He grew up in Farmville and in 1976 married his high school sweetheart, Terri A. Burley. Soon after, he started his own backhoe business,...
Anthony Berry Rowlette
Sep 19, 2013
Anthony Berry Rowlette age 93 formally of Drakes Branch VA passed away on September 19, 2013. He was born in Jetersville, VA to the late Martha Jane Yeatts Rowlette and Henry Rowlette on July 3, 1920. He was a WWII veteran and when he came home he married the love of his life, Doris Dickerson in 1947. Together they had...
Joyce Gillespie Whitlock
Sep 16, 2013
Joyce Gillespie Whitlock passed away peacefully Monday, September 16, 2013, with her children and husband by her side after a long illness. She was born in Washington, DC on June 11, 1940. She graduated from Appomattox High School and Longwood College and taught elementary school for seven years in Richmond and Virginia Beach. Mrs. Whitlock loved her children and grandchildren...
Virginia F. Jenkins
Sep 9, 2013
Virginia Frances Jenkins 68, of Meherrin, VA passed away peacefully at her home surrounded by her loving family on September 9, 2013, after a long and courageous battle with renal kidney disease. She had been a long time resident of Middleburg, VA and Winchester, VA before moving to Meherrin five years ago. She was born in Woodstock, VA on December...
Myrtle Hart Bridgforth
Sep 9, 2013
Myrtle H. Bridgforth age 90 of Farmville, VA passed away in Farmville, September 9, 2013. She is the widow of W. Louis Bridgforth. She was born in Lunenburg County to the late Lula Passmore and Thorton H. Hart on December 3, 1922. She was raised in Victoria, VA and as an adult she worked for the Rationing Board during WWII....
Anthony Garfield Harmon
Aug 30, 2013
The Earthly life of Anthony Garfield Harmon came to a peaceful and serene end as he slipped away from his family on Friday afternoon on August 30, 2013 with out saying good-by. He resided in Miami Beach, Florida. He was born to Woodrow and Bertha Harmon in Yonkers, NY on October 9, 1953. They later moved to Mt. Vernon, New...
Jeanne Doerer Davis
Aug 28, 2013
Jeanne Doerer Davis, 71 of Farmville passed away peacefully on August 28, 2013. She was preceded in death by her parents; Thomas A. Doerer and Marguerite Omohundro Doerer of Warsaw, a sister; Barbara Garland of Warsaw and a brother; William Doerer of New Orleans, LA. She is survived by her husband of 52 years, Charles M. Davis, a daughter, Deborah...
Mary Lee Delany Bray
Aug 26, 2013
Mary Lee (Delany) Bray, age 50 of Keysville Virginia passed away Monday August 26th, 2013 after a short battle with cancer. She was born in Hampton VA to William and Charlotte Delany on July 22, 1963. She was raised in Hampton and attended Bethel High School class of 82. Mary went to Chowan University and then to VCU where she...
Frances Elsie Dowdy Fulcher
Aug 21, 2013
Frances Elsie Dowdy Fulcher, 89 of Farmville passed away on Wednesday, August 21, 2013. She was born on January 15, 1924 to the late Annie Singleton Dowdy and Charles Hamilton Dowdy Sr. She graduated from Farmville High school and then attended Longwood State Teachers College now Longwood University. She was married to Thomas J. Fulcher Jr. in 1946 and had...
Robert Paul Joles
Aug 13, 2013
Robert Paul Joles, 90, departed this life and went home to be with the Lord Jesus, Tuesday, August 13, 2013 at his home in Rice, VA. Robert was born March 20, 1923 to Charles and Adda (Gumbert) Joles in Pittsburg, Pa., the youngest of 4 children. Robert served in the Navy in WWII as an Aviation Machinist. He retired from...
John 'Jack' Herbert Greenhalgh, Sr.
Aug 5, 2013
John (Jack) Herbert Greenhalgh, Sr., 85 passed away Monday, August 5, 2013 in Farmville. He was born February 25, 1928 in Lowell, Massachusetts, son of Marion (Kydd) Greenhalgh and Alan Edward Greenhalgh. As a boy, Jack sang soprano on the local radio station and during Sunday church services. After graduating from Sanborn Seminary, he received a degree in accounting from...
Wilda Decamp Lyons
Jul 20, 2013
Wilda D. Lyons, 90 formally of N.H. died July 20, 2013 at The Woodland in Farmville, VA after a short illness. She was born in Claremont, N.H. on February 7, 1923. The daughter of John R. and Mattie F. Leavitt DeCamp and received her education in Claremont. Survivors include one daughter; Mrs. Donald (Wilda Lynn) Hoskinson of Crewe, VA, two...
Kathleen 'Cotton'Justus Barr
Jul 18, 2013
Kathleen “Cotton” Justus Barr, 78, of Farmville, passed away Thursday, July 18, 2013. She was born in Sevier County, TN. She was the daughter of the late Herbert & Edna Hicks Justus. She was also preceded in death by her son Robert “Gary” Barr and her husband Robert M. Barr. Cotton loved to collect angels and tending her roses. She...
David Reese Black
Jul 15, 2013
David Reese Black, 46 of Farmville, was called home by his Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, on July 15, 2013. Reese joined the United States Air Force after he graduated from Prospect Christian Academy, and served his country for 11 years in Korea, Afghanistan and Spain during Desert Storm. After leaving the military, Reese lived for more than 20 years...
Margaret Helen Whiteley
Jul 14, 2013
Margaret Helen Whiteley, of Farmville, passed away on Sunday, July 14, 2013. She was born in Lincoln, RI on April 12, 1921 to the late Joyce Gollidge Whittle and James Whittle. She lived in Pawtucket, RI for 86 years, moved to Connecticut in 2007 and then to Virginia in 2012. She is the wife of the late Frank R. Whiteley,...
Martha Mccorkle Tennant
Jul 14, 2013
Martha McCorkle Tennant of Farmville, VA died Sunday July 14, 2013 at the age of 93. She was the daughter of the late Mr & Mrs Thomas Alexander McCorkle, (Mattie Ethel). She was preceded in death by her first husband Bennett Terrell Taylor, Jr. and her second husband Harold Prew Tennant. She is survived by two daughters, Sherwood Taylor Robertson-Seibert...
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