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Judith Taylor-Callahan
Jul 15, 2017
Judith Taylor-Callahan, 75, passed away Saturday, July 15, 2017. A lifelong resident of the Peninsula, she was a former real estate agent with Century 21 Nachman Realty.
Judy is survived by her husband, Kelley J. Callahan; children, Lynda Haynes and David Haynes and his wife, Janie; step-children, Mary Tuinei and John Callahan, sisters, Carolyn Harper and Sunny...
Oscar Wade Burton
Jul 13, 2017
Oscar Wade Burton, 73, passed away Thursday, July 13, 2017 peacefully at his home. Born in Maple Hill, North Carolina, he was a resident of Hampton since 1961. He was retired from Verizon Telephone Company, where he was a cable technician. He was a member of Calvary Assembly of God. Wade was preceded in death...
Margaret Sherman Falk
Jul 8, 2017
Margaret Sherman Falk, 95, passed away Saturday, July 8, 2017 in Chesapeake, VA. A native of Hampton, VA, she was a graduate of Hampton High School and JMU. She worked at Langley Field as a secretary until she met her husband Bill. They were married for 65 years. In her younger years, she sang professionally. She was a faithful...
Connie Marie Akers
Jul 7, 2017
Connie Marie Akers, 83, died Friday, July 7, 2017. Born in Pembroke, Virginia, she was a longtime Hampton resident where she worked at Maida Development and as a Deli Manager at Pantry Pride.
Preceded in death by her parents, Albert and Evelyn Rumburg, and her husband Arthur L. Akers;...
Mae Hoppe Burcher
Jul 6, 2017
Mae Hoppe Burcher, 86, died Thursday, July 6, 2017. Born in Hampton, she was a longtime Yorktown resident where she worked in banking and drove a York County school bus for many years and was a member of St. Luke's United Methodist Church. Very active in the International Order of Job's Daughters, she was a...
John C. Thorstad
Jul 4, 2017
John C. Thorstad, of Hampton, a loving and devoted father, son, brother and husband, died Tuesday, July 4th, 2017. He was 49 years old. Born at Chanute Air Force Base, in Rantoul, Illinois, to John and Alyce Thorstad on June 12th, 1968, John grew up as a proud Air Force brat living in Minnesota, New...
Linda Gail Kearney
Jul 3, 2017
Linda Gail Kearney, 51, passed away July 3, 2017 in Hampton. Originally from Hampton, she was a graduate of Dinwiddie High School and later in life moved back to Hampton where she and her husband William lived. Linda's greatest joy in life was spending time with her seven grandchildren. She was preceded in death by...
Paul Eugene Kline
Jul 2, 2017
Paul Eugene Kline, one of America's Greatest Generation, passed away peacefully at his home on July 2, 2017 at age 96. He was born in Vintondale, Pennsylvania to Helen and John Kline. Paul was the oldest of their four sons. He graduated from Portage High School in 1939 and enlisted in the Army and did...
Joseph Francis Braig
Jun 30, 2017
On Friday, June 30, 2017, God looked around and decided it was time to call His faithful servant home to help tend the garden. Joseph Francis Braig, 101 joined his beloved wife Shirley to whom he was married for 67 years.
Born April 22, 1916 in West Point, NY to Eugene Charles and Agnes Marie (Baldwin) Braig,...
Virginia Dare Johnston
Jun 28, 2017
Virginia Dare Cheesman Johnston, 95, went to be with her Lord and Savior on June 28, 2017.
Born in Newport News, Virginia on January 31, 1922, she was a long-time resident of Phoebus in her younger years and of Hampton since 1972. Virginia was employed by Maida Development Company...
Jonathan Kent Scull
Jun 27, 2017
Jonathan Kent Scull, age 31, passed away, June 27, 2017. He was a lifelong resident of Newport News and a shift manager of Firehouse Subs.
Jonathan was preceded in death by his grandparents Elmer and Clova Hall, grandfather William Scull, his uncle Donald Hall, his uncle Stephen Scull, and...
Agnes Brock Williams
Jun 26, 2017
Agnes Brock Williams 84, widow of Robert D. Williams, died Monday, June 26, 2017. Raised in Mt. Olive, NC Agnes moved to Hampton in 1965 where she worked for J.C. Penny in customer service. She joined the Century Lanes Bowling League and became a member of Langley Christian Church participating as long as she was...
Lee Darracott Parker
Jun 22, 2017
Lee D. Parker went home to be with his Lord on June 22, 2017. He was a loving and devoted husband and father.
Lee was a native and lifelong resident of Hampton. Upon graduating from Hampton High School, he attended Washington & Lee University, then NC State University where...
Miyoko "Teri" Hickey
Jun 22, 2017
Miyoko "Teri" Hickey, age 87, passed away on Thursday, June 22, 2017, after a long battle with Atypical Parkinson's Disease. Born to Kazuo and Miri Tejima in Tokyo, Japan, she was a resident of Hampton for 43 years. Teri was the proud owner of Forget Me Not Florist in Hampton during the 80's.
Mary "Mandy" Patrick
Jun 22, 2017
Mary "Mandy" Patrick, 72, beloved wife of John Patrick Sr, passed away June 22, 2017. Mandy was employed by Kinder Morgan Pier IX Terminal for the past 28 years, serving in accounts. Her loving character and spirit will live on in the many that knew and adored her.
She...
James Marshall Smith
Jun 21, 2017
James Marshall Smith, Command Master Chief, United States Navy, passed away on June 21, 2017 encased by the love and support of the family that surrounded him in life, as well as those family and friends that communicated to him in various ways over the last few months how much he was admired and loved. Jim's life could never be...
Nell T. Warren
Jun 20, 2017
Nell T. Warren has been battling breast cancer (IBC) for over 5 years but sadly the fight ended on the 20th of June. Â She was the wife of Laurence A. Warren, DDS and "temporary" office manager for 23 years in their office. Â Nell was a great mom to Nikki, Allen, and Ashley and loving grandparent...
Marielena Macias
Jun 19, 2017
Marielena Macias, age 44, born September 26, 1972; died June 19, 2017, at Sentara Heart Hospital, Norfolk VA, after a long battle with Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) and heart failure. Marielena passed through the valley of death peacefully in her sleep. Our Lord heard her prayers & called her to him. Many knew...
William V. Jones
Jun 18, 2017
HAMPTON - William V. Jones, 78, passed away on June 18, 2017. Born in Terre Haute, Indiana, he has been a resident of Hampton for over forty years. Before coming to Hampton, he proudly served in the US Army for twenty years where he retired in 1978. He then became a welder at Howmet, from which he also retired. William...
Barbara Price Boles
Jun 17, 2017
Barbara Price Boles departed this earth June 17, 2017. She was born in Elizabeth City County, VA to John Watson Price and June Wynn Price. A 1954 graduate of Hampton High School and a member of the FMO sorority, she went on to graduate from Thomas Nelson Community College and Riverside School of Nursing as...

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