Obituaries
Richard Mason Atkins
Sep 24, 2023
Richard Mason Atkins -- loving husband, father, grandfather, great-grandfather, and brother --passed away peacefully on Sunday, September 24th, 2023, at the age of 88.
Richard was born on October 22, 1934, in Isle of Wight County, Virginia. After graduating in 1953 from Smithfield High School, Richard began working at Newport News Shipbuilding, before joining the US Air Force in...
Willard Ward Lane, Jr.
Sep 22, 2023
Willard (Bobby) Ward Lane Jr, of Petersburg, went to be with the lord on Friday September 22, 2023,
at the age of 89. Born in 1934 in Elberon, VA on a family farm in Surry County. He graduated from Surry
High School in 1953 and married the love of his life, Irma Setchel in 1956. He was a former...
James "Jim" Henry Livengood, Jr.
Sep 17, 2023
James “Jim” Henry Livengood Jr., 88, of Smithfield, Virginia, passed away on September 17, 2023 at Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News. Jim graduated from Boyden High School and Catawba College in Salisbury, N.C. He worked his way through college taking photographs and was hired by the Salisbury Post as a photographer soon after. Jim married his childhood...
Neil Storck Sugermeyer
Sep 15, 2023
Neil Sugermeyer, 83, of Smithfield passed away on Friday, September 15, 2023. He was the son of the late George Henry Sugermeyer and Eleanor Gruver Sugermeyer. He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Martha Reese Sugermeyer; daughter, Elizabeth Cara Campbell (Michael); son, Andrew Rolf Sugermeyer (Evelyn); grandchildren Sophie and Michael; brother Robert Sugermeyer (Donna); and several nieces and...
Alan "Al" Earl Casteen
Sep 15, 2023
Well, where to begin? Let’s get through the usual stuff first, Al Casteen joined the Army National Guard right out of school, got married, and worked full time while also attending college at night. Contemplating studying medicine or law, he finally settled on this interesting new field of computers, much to his parents’ dismay. Hard work and a brilliant mind...
Mary Angeline "Maryann" Hanson
Sep 12, 2023
Mary Angeline “Maryann” Hanson, 92 passed away peacefully in Smithfield, VA on September 12, 2023. She leaves behind the legacy of a kind and giving heart. She is preceded in death by her husband John Richard “Dick” and her beloved granddaughter Kory Laurene Forrest Jones. She is survived by her children Kip Redick (Sarah) and Kim Forrest (Mark); grandchildren Kymberly Carr (Paul),...
Richard Owen Pascoe
Sep 12, 2023
Richard Owen Pascoe, 70, of Smithfield passed away on Tuesday, September 12, 2023. Rick was born in Goldsboro, NC on October 27, 1952. He was the son of the late James Wilson Pascoe and Annie Cleo Johnson Pascoe. He is survived by his wife of 29 years, Maria Theresa Pascoe; daughters, Kelly Wittwer (Jay), Leanne Rainey (Montage), Amanda Colón (Juan),...
Bruce Reginald Spady
Sep 10, 2023
Bruce Reginald Spady, 94, passed peacefully on the morning of September 10, 2023 at Riverside Convalescence in Smithfield, VA.
He was a lifelong resident and farmer of Smithfield. He was well known in Isle of Wight County for his outstanding dedication to farming and the land he tended.
Bruce is predeceased by his parents, Ramos and Wilma (Pope)...
Lillian "Jeanette" Garris Pierce
Sep 8, 2023
Lillian “Jeanette” Garris Pierce, 85, was set free from her earthly bondages September 8, 2023.
She fought a long and hard battle of sickness, when God said “enough” and called her home. Preceded in death were the love of her life, Hersey, married 67 years, her father, Paul “Petie Paul” J. Garris, mother, Martha S. Foster and brother, Paul...
Mary Theresa Henderson
Sep 3, 2023
Mary Theresa Henderson, 87, of Carrollton, VA passed away on Sunday, September 3, 2023. She was
previously a longtime resident of Pearl River, New York.
Mary was preceded in death by her loving husband, Jay, of sixty-five years. Together they had three
children, Robert (deceased), Diane (husband Keith), and Keith (wife Karen). She was blessed with four
grandchildren, Jenna,...
Teresa Ann Cowing Williams
Sep 3, 2023
Teresa Ann Cowing Williams, 58, of Hampton, passed away on Sunday, September 3, 2023. She is survived by her husband, Ron; four children, Preston Williams, Timothy Truitt, Esther Doyle (Coty) and Jacqueline Doyle (Jimmy); ten grandchildren; six great grandchildren; four siblings, James Truitt (Avis), Thomas Truitt (Diana), Marie Gibbs (Tommy, dec 2023’) and Penny Williams (Alexander). She was a wonderful...
Alberta Bowling Ferebee
Sep 3, 2023
Alberta B. Ferebee, 87, passed away on Sunday, September 3, 2023 in the home she raised her children in. She was a beacon of strength and positivity for all those who had the privilege to know her. She leaves behind a legacy of kindness, love and compassion. Her greatest accomplishments were raising her children to be compassionate and giving...
Elizabeth "Beth" Greene McKinney
Aug 31, 2023
Elizabeth “Beth” Poindexter Greene McKinney of Smithfield, VA, 76, passed away on August 31, 2023. She was the daughter of the late and beloved parents, Aldie Duke Greene, III and Lula Poindexter Greene of Portsmouth. Left to cherish her memory is her loving and caring husband of 53 years, Roy H. McKinney of Smithfield; a daughter, Shelley McKinney Picado...
Thomas Nelson Davis
Aug 28, 2023
Thomas “Tommy” Nelson Davis, 59, of Carrollton passed on Monday, August 28, 2023. He was the son of Parks Davis and Mary Alice Harrison Davis. He is also survived by his wife of 40 years, Della “Didi” Kaye Lillis Davis; sons, John Davis (Michelle), Benjamin “Beni” Davis and Maurice “Miki” Davis; grandchildren, Madison, Skylar, Parks, Paisley and Delilah; sister, Tina D....
Edwina Kent Chapman "Eddie K" Willard
Aug 28, 2023
Edwina Kent Chapman "Eddie K" Willard passed into the arms of her Father on Monday August 28, 2023. She is survived by her two loving sons Michael Downing and Bert Joseph Willard, two daughters-in-law Karen Walters Willard and Diane Hardison Willard, 4 loving grandchildren and their spouses, two great grandchildren, numerous nieces and nephews, and lives on in our hearts...
Michael Lee Johnson
Aug 27, 2023
Michael Lee Johnson, 57, of Windsor, passed away on Sunday, August 27, 2023. He was the son of the late Jerry Preston Johnson and Erma Madeline Coffey Johnson. He is survived by his wife Tracey Lynn Johnson; daughters, Amanda Wright (William), Brittany Heasley; son, Lane Johnson; grandchildren, Bentley, Corey, J.C. and Jakobi; and brothers, Ronald Mull (Susan) and Richard...
Shirley Ann Dawson Mutter
Aug 26, 2023
Shirley Ann Dawson Mutter, 91, of Suffolk, passed away on Saturday, August 26, 2023. She was the daughter of the late Charles Edward Dawson and Eva Crawford Dawson. She was preceded in death by her husband of 69 years Robert Junior Mutter and a son, James Bower Mutter.
She is survived by her daughters, Stephanie Karen Murrell (Stan) of...
James P. Bonney, Jr.
Aug 26, 2023
James P. Bonney, Jr., 100, of Smithfield Va. passed away at his residence peacefully on 26 August 2023. He was preceded in death by his parents James P. Bonney Sr. and Margaret McDermott Bonney of Pine Bush NY, his brothers Joseph Michael, Richard, Thomas, Robert, Daniel and his sisters, Mary B. Edmunds, Margaret B. Szemplenski, and Elnora Bonney.
Jim is...
Lucille Crocker Turner
Aug 26, 2023
Lucille (Lucy) Rebecca Crocker Turner, 86, of Smithfield, passed away peacefully on Saturday, August 26, 2023. Born in Isle of Wight County, Virginia on November 18, 1936, she was the daughter of the late Peter Frank Crocker, Sr and Lillian Marie Brock Crocker. She was preceded in death by her husband Eddie Seward Turner, Jr. Affectionately known as “Mimi,” she...
Patricia Diane Watkins
Aug 23, 2023
Patricia Diane Flanders Watkins, 65, pf Seminole, Fl, passed away on Wednesday, August 23, 2023. She was the daughter of Jerry E. Flanders and the late Oleta Mae Morgan Flanders. She is survived by her husband of 43 years, Thomas James Milsom Watkins; sons, Thomas Watkins (April), Andrew Watkins (A.J.), William Watkins and Peter Watkins; grandchildren, Phoebe, James and...
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