Current Obituaries
Local obituaries for Farmville, VA and surrounding areas

Elizabeth Asal Newman
Mar 26, 2009
Mrs. Elizabeth Asal Newman, 93 of Cumberland passed away Thursday, March 26, 2009. She was born September 8, 1915 in Cumberland. She was the daughter of the late Phillip Jacob and Elizabeth Brinkley Asal. She was the widow of W. C. Newman. She is survived by her children, William Newman and wife, Frieda of Farmville, Jacob Newman and wife, Betty...

Harold Allen Jones
Mar 24, 2009
Mr. Harold Allen Jones, 62, of Farmville passed away Tuesday, March 24, 2009. He was preceded in death by his parents, Lester C. and Beulah Mottley Jones of Farmville. Harry graduated from Prince Edward Academy in 1965. Harry was a master cabinet maker and while living in Corpus Christi, Texas, he worked in many phases of construction. Harry had a...

Rose Ann Ott
Mar 18, 2009
Mrs. Rose Ann Ott, 66 of Pamplin, formerly of Long Island, New York, passed away Wednesday in Charlottesville. She was born December 8, 1942 in New York. She was the daughter of the late Vincent J. and Clara Fond Bravo. She loved horses and was a member of the Islip Horsemans Association. She is survived by her loving husband, Eugene;...

Billy C. Clark
Mar 15, 2009
Billy C. Clark, 80, of Farmville, Va., formerly of Catlettsburg and Somerset, Ky., passed away Sunday, March 15, 2009, at his home. Mr. Clark was born Dec. 29, 1928, in Catlettsburg, a son of the late Mason E. and Bertha Hewlett Clark. He was a graduate of Thomas R. Brown High School, served with the United States Army during the...

Mary Ann Garrett Chappell
Mar 10, 2009
CHAPPELL, Mary Ann Garrett, of Abilene, entered her heavenly home in the arms of Gods Angels on Tuesday, March 10, 2009 after a long and courageous battle with cancer. She was born December 31, 1945, the daughter of the late Clyde Landon Garrett, Sr. and Willie Ann Banton Garrett. Long time employee of Prince Edward Academy and was a teacher...

Francis Eugene Wood, Sr. (Gene)
Mar 5, 2009
Francis Eugene Wood, Sr. (Gene), 80, of Farmville passed away Thursday, March 5, 2009 in Lynchburg. He was born March 14, 1928 to William Henry and Margaret Camden Wood of Buckingham. He is survived by his wife of 59 years, Edna Clabo Wood; three children, Sandra Wood Parker and husband, Marion Baker Parker, Jr. of Suffolk; Francis Eugene Wood, Jr....

Rosa Lee Adams
Mar 3, 2009
Mrs. Rosa Lee Adams, 73 of Keysville passed away Tuesday morning in Farmville. She was born June 18, 1935 in Ferrum, Virginia. She was the daughter of the late Wade Hampton and Ruby Estelle Moye Taylor. She was the widow of John T. Adams, Sr. She is survived by her children, Sharon Metcalf and husband, Ronnie of Pamplin, Cindy Adams...

Mabel Grace Cunningham Welch Hill
Feb 23, 2009
Mabel Grace Cunningham Welch Hill, Yie, died on Monday, February 23 at The Woodland Retirement Community following complications from a stroke she suffered in October. Yie Hill was born Oct. 20, 1922, to the late Katharine Longsworth and Edward Newton Cunningham in Pamplin, Va. She was preceded in death by her brother, Walter Newton Cunningham, and husbands Clarence Johnson Welch...

Paul Winfrey Cave
Feb 19, 2009
Mr. Paul Winfrey Cave, 75 died Thursday, February 19, 2009 in Farmville, Va. He was born November 2, 1933 to Charles Wesley and Bessie Hurt Cave in New Canton, Va. He is survived by his wife of fifty-six years, Peggy Shupe Cave, his three children, Cynthia Louise Cave of Suffolk, VA, Charles Mark Cave and wife, Patricia Gail Yeatts Cave...

Alice Ragland Hudson
Feb 19, 2009
Alice Ragland Hudson, 72 of Farmville died February 19, 2009. She was born February 26, 1936 in Buckingham County. Alice loved the Lord and looked forward to entering Heavens gates after battling COPD for many years. Alice was an accomplished seamstress, best known for her impeccable style and grace. She was preceded in death by her parents, Woodrow and Estelle...

Herbert Gray Vaughan
Feb 15, 2009
Herb Vaughan of Prospect, formerly of Farmville and Newport News, Virginia, passed peacefully after a lengthy illness, on February 15, 2009 at Southside Community Hospital. Born December 28, 1940 to Henry Eugene and Emily Rieker Vaughan, Herb grew up in Cumberland County where he attended John Randolph Elementary and was a member of Cumberland Presbyterian Church. In 1959, Herb graduated...

Edgar Glenn Dunnavant
Feb 8, 2009
Edgar Glenn Dunnavant, 87, of Farmville passed away Sunday, February 8, 2009 at his residence. He was born December 15, 1921 in Lunenburg County, the son of the late Ellis C. and Lena Cocke Dunnavant. Mr. Dunnavant served his country in the United States Army during WWII where he was captured during the Battle of the Bulge. He was a...

Norma Louise Soyars Watkins
Feb 8, 2009
WATKINS, Norma Louise Soyars, went to her heavenly home February 8, 2009. She was the daughter of the late Reverend Henry Norman Soyars and the late Kate Tyler Soyars. She is survived by her husband of 59 years, William F. Watkins Jr.; a daughter, Sally Anne Watkins Bobbitt and her husband, Thomas C. Bobbitt, of Richmond; and two sons, William...

Mollie Ann Gibson
Feb 6, 2009
Mollie Ann Gibson, 57, of Cullen passed away Friday, February 6, 2009 in Lynchburg. She was born May 15, 1951 in Prince Edward County, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Aubrey Newell Gibson. Mollie remained in her parents home where she continually cared for them until they passed away. She then moved into Woodland home in Jetersville. Mollie...

Bertha Meadows Dickhoff
Feb 3, 2009
Mrs. Bertha Meadows Dickhoff, 75 of Farmville passed away Tuesday evening in Farmville. She was born September 16, 1933 in Abilene, Virginia. She was the daughter of the late John James and Lena Hester Meadows. She is survived by her husband Henry Dickhoff, her sons, George Dickhoff and wife Lynn of Farmville and John Henry Dickhoff, Jr. and wife Christina...

Margaret Steele Bailey
Feb 3, 2009
Mrs. Margaret Steele Bailey, 75 of Farmville passed away Tuesday evening in Farmville. She was born March 23, 1933 in Coylton, Scotland. She was the daughter of the late Charles and Carina Berritti Steele. She was the wife of Joseph M. Bailey. She is survived by her husband, her children, Joseph C. Bailey and wife Jazmin of Farmville, Virginia, Karen...
Mae Reynolds Shepherd
Jan 30, 2009
Mae Reynolds Shepherd, 90 formerly of Richmond passed away January 30, 2009 in Roanoke, VA where she was a resident of Our Lady of the Valley. She was born June 19, 1918 in Buckingham County. She was the daughter of the late Lelia Morris Reynolds and William H. Reynolds. She was preceded in death by her four sisters and two...

Thomas Bernard Driskill, Sr.
Jan 19, 2009
Thomas Bernard Driskill, Sr., 84 of Keysville passed away Monday morning in Richmond. He was born January 2, 1925 in Prince Edward County. He was the son of the late Robert L. and Helen Driskill. He was the husband of Elizabeth Driskill. Mr. Driskill was a retired farmer. He loved the outdoors and working on the land. He is survived...

Dorothy Jean Watson
Jan 13, 2009
Dorothy Watson passed away at Southside Community Hospital on January 13, 2009. Dorothy was born in Newington, Connecticut on June 16, 1929. She began her life-long career in nursing in the Air Force, followed by work in a physicians practice, then moving on to 38 years of service at Southside Community Hospital, devoting herself to providing quality care to generations...

Donna Kirk
Jan 6, 2009
Donna Kirk, 64 of Farmville passed away Tuesday in Richmond after a long illness. She was born June 22, 1944 in Huntington Park, California and raised in Iowa. She was the daughter of Wesley Dorn and Marjorie Collister. She graduated from Jessup High School in Jessup, Iowa. She then graduated in Nursing from Allen Memorial Hospital, Waterloo, Iowa in 1966....