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Henry Martin Jarvis
Jun 30, 2012
Henry Martin Jarvis, 60, of 3151 Middlebrook Road passed away June 30, 2012 in Augusta Health in Fishersville. Mr. Jarvis was born in Augusta County on April 17, 1952, a son of the late George Martin and Pauline (Howdyshell) Jarvis. Mr. Jarvis was a member of Mt. Tabor Lutheran Church and was a retired machinist from RexNord. In addition to...
Dorothy Cora Brooks
Jun 29, 2012
Dorothy Cora Brooks, 75, of 287 Mill Creek Lane passed away, Friday, June 29, 2012 in Avante in Waynesboro. Ms. Brooks was born in Augusta County on May 1, 1937, a daughter of the late James Robert and Christine (Goines) Brooks. Ms. Brooks was a member of Beulah Baptist Church, a homemaker and wonderful Mother who provided for her family....
Lona Mae Bogan
Jun 27, 2012
Lona W. Bogan STAUNTON: Mrs. Lona Mae (Wimer) Bogan, 82, widow of Sammy Herman Bogan of 1842 Springhill Road passed away Wednesday, June 27, 2012 in Augusta Health in Fishersville. Mrs. Bogan was born in Rockingham County on June 23, 1930, a daughter of the late Alfred Oran and Lillie (Lambert) Wimer. Mrs. Bogan was a member of the Third...
Patricia Hopkins Hillery
Jun 26, 2012
Patricia H. Hillery STAUNTON: Our mother, Patricia Hopkins Stempkowski Hillery passed from this life on June 26th 2012 in Staunton, Virginia, her home for the last 11 years. Born on March 3, 1925, in Aylburton, Gloucestershire, England, to Elizabeth (Weaver) and Charles Hopkins, she had a lifelong love of learning. The 1930s in England were hard times, but her father...
Sammy Herman Bogan
Jun 25, 2012
Sammy H. Bogan STAUNTON: Sammy Herman Bogan, 85, husband of Lona Mae (Wimer) Bogan (now deceased) of 1842 Springhill Road passed away Monday, June 25, 2012 in Augusta Health in Fishersville. Mr. Bogan was born July 20, 1926 in Hot Springs, a son of the late Harry Herman Bogan and Chloe (Grogg) Bogan Snyder. Mr. Bogan was a member of...
Barbara Lee Campbell
Jun 23, 2012
Barbara Lee (Roadcap) Campbell, 71, of Staunton, passed away Saturday, June 23, 2012, in Envoy of Staunton. Mrs. Campbell was born January 27, 1941, in Staunton, a daughter of the late Clarence and Ethel (Eustler) Roadcap. She had been employed at Western State Hospital as an aid, Barbara enjoyed shopping, cooking and the outdoors. In addition to her parents, Mrs....
Karen Lee Gorton
Jun 19, 2012
Karen L. Gorton VERONA: Karen Lee (Pecor) Gorton, 58, widow of Keith Robert Gorton of 58 Rolla Mill Road passed away Tuesday, June 19, 2012 at her residence. Mrs. Gorton was born in Burlington, VT on April 3, 1954, a daughter of the late Donald and Wilma Ann (Hall) Pecor. Mrs. Gorton was of the Methodist Faith and a homemaker....
O'Neil Simmons
Jun 18, 2012
ONeil (Spradlin) Simmons, wife of Elwood Lee Simmons of 24 Lilly Drive, Fishersville passed away, Monday, June 18, 2012 in Augusta Health in Fishersville. Mrs. Simmons was born in Waynesboro, a daughter of the late Luther David and Ethel (Thacker) Spradlin. Mrs. Simmons was a member of Basic United Methodist Church in Waynesboro and was retired as secretary with the...
Helen Laverne (Garber) Smiley
Jun 16, 2012
Helen G. Smiley VERONA Helen LaVerne (Garber) Smiley, 90, wife of James Dorsey Smiley of 35 Maple Drive, passed away Saturday, June 16, 2012 in Envoy of Staunton. Mrs. Smiley was born on July 16, 1921 in Mt. Sidney, Virginia, a daughter of the late Dewey McKinley and Ethel (Johnson) Garber. Helen was an active member of Augusta Stone Presbyterian...
Steve Ray Reed
Jun 15, 2012
Stephen Steve Ray Allen Jesse Reed, 57, husband of Debbi G. Reed of 274 Farmington Drive went to be with his Lord and Savior, on Friday, June 15, 2012. Mr. Reed was born in Staunton, on December 8, 1954 a son of the late Jesse and Eulalia (Rife) Reed. He attended New Life Four Square Gospel Church, in Staunton. He...
Kenneth Anthony Dzuba
Jun 13, 2012
Kenneth A. Dzuba STAUNTON: Kenneth Anthony Dzuba, 65, husband of Virginia C. Dzuba of 172 Straith Street passed away Wednesday, June 13, 2012 at his residence. Mr. Dzuba was born January 30, 1947 in New York City, a son of the late Anthony and Gloria (Smith) Dzuba. Mr. Dzuba retired in 2001 from the Cold Springs Correctional Center as a...
Dorothy Myrtle Snyder
Jun 13, 2012
Dorothy Myrtle (Ramsey) Snyder, 87, widow of John Henry Snyder, Jr. of Stuarts Draft passed away, Wednesday, June 13, 2012 in Augusta Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Fishersville. Mrs. Snyder was born in Augusta County near Vesuvius on March 7, 1925, a daughter of the late Willie Lee and Alice Myrtle (Houser) Ramsey. Mrs. Snyder was a 1943 graduate of...
Earl Marcellus Fretwell
Jun 12, 2012
Earl Marcellos Fretwell, 74, of 512 Houston Street passed away Tuesday, June 12, 2012 in Envoy of Staunton. Mr. Fretwell was born in Augusta County on March 15, 1938, a son of the late Marcellos and Nellie (Monroe) Fretwell, Earl was previously employed as a laborer with Fitzgerald Lumber Company. Survivors are three sisters, Hazel Fretwell, Catherine Fretwell and Emma...
Ruth Neal Lancaster - Burgess
Jun 11, 2012
Ruth Neal Lancaster-Burgess STAUNTON: Ruth Neal (Sanders) Lancaster-Burgess, 77, of Staunton died Monday, June 11, 2012 at her residence. She was born July 4, 1934 in Gaffney, South Carolina. Mom, knowing her heavenly home awaited, wrote her own obituary: I was privileged to be the last born child of John Thomas (Tom) and Mary Ellen Sanders. They are no longer...
Frances May Quick
Jun 11, 2012
Frances R. Quick STAUNTON: Frances May (Root) Quick, 84, widow of Earl F. Quick formerly of 21 Woodlee Road passed away Monday, June 11, 2012 at the residence of her adopted daughter with whom she was making her home. Mrs. Quick was born in Staunton on December 23, 1927, a daughter of the late Kyle Houston and Gladys Linwood (Daggy)...
Kathy Jo Davis
Jun 10, 2012
Kathy B. Davis STUARTS DRAFT: Kathy Jo (Brooks) Davis, 47, wife of Greg E. Davis of 133 Bowmans Run Drive passed away Sunday, June 10, 2012 in Rockingham Memorial Hospital in Harrisonburg. Mrs. Davis was born in Waynesboro on March 17, 1965, a daughter of Garnett Sidney and Mary Frances (Hall) Brooks. Kathy was a member of Destiny Family Center...
Robert 'Bob' Lee Quick
Jun 1, 2012
Robert Lee Bob Quick, 84, widower of Ada Frances (Guffey) Quick formerly of 806 East Beverley Street passed away Friday, June 1, 2012 in Kings Daughters Community Health and Rehabilitation Center. Mr. Quick was born September 19, 1927 in Augusta County, a son of the late D. Thomas and Elizabeth Marie (Dixon) Quick. Mr. Quick was a member of Bethany...
Ronald 'Lee' Howdyshell, Jr.
May 30, 2012
Ronald L. Howdyshell, Jr. STAUNTON: Ronald Lee Howdyshell, Jr., 45, of 422 Baltimore Avenue passed away Wednesday, May 30, 2012 at his residence. Lee was born on January 2, 1967 in Waynesboro, a son of Ronald Lee Howdyshell, Sr. and Joyce Ann (Pugh) Howdyshell of Staunton. Mr. Howdyshell was a 1985 graduate of Robert Lee High School and was employed...
Carlos Jerome Smith
May 29, 2012
STAUNTON: Carlos Jerome Smith, 21, of 1821 Vinson Street passed away Tuesday, May 29, 2012 in the Brian Center of Fincastle in Fincastle, Virginia. Carlos was born in Roanoke on May 22, 1991, a son of Elwood Lee Smith of Richmond and Carmen Viola Jenkins of Harrisonburg. Carlos graduated from Lee High School in 2010, he was a laborer in...
Cody Miller
May 28, 2012
Cody Miller MIDDLEBROOK John Cody Miller, 17, of 1365 Walker Creek Road passed away Monday, May 28, 2012 in the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. Cody was born in Fishersville on September 19, 1994, a son of John Larry Miller of Stuarts Draft and Audra Lynne (Hemp) McCray of Middlebrook. Cody was a senior at Riverheads High School...
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