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Barbara Wright
Nov 4, 2023
Barbara J. Wright, 82, of Deltaville, passed away on November 4th, 2023. Mrs. Wright was born May 13, 1941, the daughter of the late Frank and Marie Haywood. She was the wife of the late William Franklin Wright.During her working career, Barbara was a waitress at Taylor’s Restaurant in Deltaville for 37 ½ years. She was the heart of her...
Cloyde Wiley
Nov 1, 2023
Cloyde William Wiley, Jr. of Urbanna and Irvington, VA passed away on November 1, 2023. Born in 1927 in Lynchburg, VA, he graduated from E. C. Glass High School and Lynchburg College where he met and married the mother of his four boys, Gene Clayton Wiley. Life's path led Cloyde and Gene to build wonderful lives in both the Town...
Sandra Platt
Nov 1, 2023
Sandra K. Platt, age 78, of Jamaica VA, went to be with her Lord and Savior, Wednesday, November 1, 2023.She is survived by her children, Jim (Rebecca), Michelle (Howard) and Melinda (Thomas); her 4 grandchildren, Emily, Caleb, Garrett, Hayden; father of children, James Platt, sister- in- laws, Sarah (Lionel), Vickie (Mike) and Faye (Henry); brother- in-law, Billy and numerous nieces...
Patricia Marshall
Oct 31, 2023
Patricia Redmon Marshall, known always as Pat, passed away at her home on October 31, 2023. Her family will honor her memory with a graveside service on Sunday, November 5, 2023 at 2pm at Middlesex Memorial Cemetery in Urbanna, VA. Afterwards, there will be a celebration of Life at Piankatank River Golf Club. Those who knew Pat are welcome to...
James Stevens
Oct 26, 2023
James C. Stevens, Jr., 88, of Hardyville, Virginia passed away on Thursday, October 26, 2023. He retired from Naval Weapons Station in Yorktown, Virginia. He was a man who was a firm believer in hard work, which was something he instilled in his children while growing up. He was a husband who always appreciated the love of his life, Mrs....
William Simmons
Oct 26, 2023
William “Bill” Paul Simmons, Sr., of Mathews County, Virginia passed away peacefully in his home on Thursday, October 26, 2023, at the age of 87.Bill was born in Richmond, Virginia on April 30, 1936, to Claude Vivian Simmons and Marguerite Broadwell Simmons. He attended the University of Richmond, where he graduated with his bachelor’s in chemistry. During this time, he...
Elizabeth Haufler
Oct 24, 2023
Elizabeth E. Haufler (Beth), age 66, of both Richmond and Mathews, VA, sadly passed away Tuesday, October 24th, 2023 after a short struggle with cancer.She is survived by her father, Edwin Haufler (Ed); siblings, Charles D. Lang (David), Robert E. Haufler (Bob) and his wife Maggie, Timothy R. Haufler (Tim), Julie A. Willaford and her husband, Paul; many nieces, nephews,...
Norman Jenkins
Oct 21, 2023
Norman Thomas Jenkins, affectionately known as Tommy or Tom, passed away peacefully surrounded by family members at his home in Susan, Va., on Saturday, October 21, 2023, at the age of 79. He was born on 08-14-1944. He was a 1962 graduate of Wilson High School, graduate of the Beltline Railroad Apprenticeship in 1969, associate’s degree in nursing from Tidewater...
George Burroughs
Oct 20, 2023
George Lee (Dickie) Burroughs III, born January 24, 1956, went to be with his Lord on October 20, 2023. Dickie was a 1974 graduate of Mathews High School. In 1979, he graduated from the Newport News Shipbuilding Apprentice School as an outside machinist. In 1984, he went to work for Amoco at the oil refinery in Yorktown. He retired as...
Audrey Mason
Oct 15, 2023
Audrey Mae White “Mae Mae” Mason, 84, of North, Virginia passed away at her home on Sunday, October 15, 2023. Audrey graduated from Mathews High School with the class of 1957. She was a member of Faith Baptist Church in Mathews after being a lifetime member of Macedonia Baptist Church in Foster, Virginia. Audrey was a charter member of West...
Kenneth Paris
Oct 13, 2023
Kenneth G. Paris, 92, Lieutenant Colonel, US Army (Retired), died peacefully at home in Tappahannock, Virginia on Friday, October 13, 2023. He was born on July 5, 1931 to Alice (Gilseth) and Fred Paris of Mohall, North Dakota whose families had homesteaded the prairie there in the early 1900s.Ken graduated from Mohall High School in a class of ten students...
Liliyanna Kotzeva
Oct 12, 2023
Descendant of a noble Polish family, Lilyanna was born in Warsaw, Poland in 1933. Just before the second World War, her family moved to Sofia, Bulgaria, where she spent most of her life as an exemplary business partner, passionate wife, devoted mother, and caregiving daughter to her own parents.Born and raised with the values of strong Roman Catholic tradition, Liliyanna...
Robert Hudgins Jr.
Oct 12, 2023
Robert Harris Hudgins, Jr., 85, of Tappahannock, passed away on October 12, 2023. He was a strong Washington Redskins and Jeff Gordon fan. He also enjoyed his time as a karate instructor, fishing, piloting airplanes, riding his trike, and all things motorcycles. Robert was a passionate supporter of Tunnels to Towers.He is preceded in death by his wife, Hazel Laverne...
Jo Jones
Oct 11, 2023
Jo Ann Jones of Cardinal, Virginia passed away on Wednesday, October 11, 2023. Jo Ann was born in Columbia, SC on October 15, 1941, into a catholic orphanage. She was later adopted by a Kentucky family. While still very young she and her new parents moved to Clearwater, Fl. She graduated there and later came to Virginia where she met...
John Lankford
Oct 9, 2023
John Gilbert Lankford, 91, of Howertons, passed away peacefully at home on October 9, 2023.He is survived by his loving wife of 66 years, Phyllis; a son, Kevin (Stephanie); two daughters, Karen Thomas (Jim) and Kristi Cunningham (Eric); two grandsons, Justin and Jason; two brothers, Thomas (Vera) and Deane (Arlene) and one sister, Joyce Davis (Calvin).John was a United States...
Charlton Warwick
Oct 9, 2023
On Monday morning, October 9, 2023, Tab Warwick went to join his Heavenly band and all suffering was gone. “Absent from the body, present with the Lord” 2 Corinthians 5:8.A native of Charlottesville, Virginia, he had been a resident of Mathews County since 1974. He graduated from Mathews High School in 1981 and attended Christopher Newport University. He was known...
Walter "Butch" Olphin
Oct 8, 2023
Olphin, Walter “Butch” Linwood III, 72, of Tappahannock, peacefully passed away at his home, October 5, 2023.He is survived by his wife, Debbie Olphin; his father, Walter L. Olphin, Jr; his sisters, family, and friends.Butch enjoyed the journey and quickly found a new interest when a destination was achieved. He was a Past Master of Metropolitan Lodge #11, Richmond, VA,...
Jonnie Adams
Oct 5, 2023
On October 5, 2023 Jonnie Adams of Cardinal, Virginia met her Lord and Savior face-to-face. Born Jonnine Boileau Marshall on December 15, 1942 she grew up in Hampton, Virginia and graduated from Hampton High School with the class of 1961. She married the love of her life, Thomas Adams of Poland (a nationalized US citizen) on July 1, 1961.Tom and...
Willard Thomas
Sep 27, 2023
Willard Dempsey Thomas, 81, of Gloucester, Virginia passed away on September 27, 2023 at Riverside Lifelong Health and Rehab, Mathews, Virginia. He was an employee at Best Value Supermarket in Mathews.He is survived by his sons, Willard Dempsey “Tommy” Thomas, Jr., Gene Thomas (Theresa), Homer Thomas (Wanda) and Bobby Thomas (Michele).A memorial service will be held on Monday, October 23,...
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