Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1936-2014
Mary Ann Minor
Mary Ann Minor, 73, of Charlottesville, died Thursday, Dec. 26, 2002, at her residence.
She was born Dec. 15, 1929, in Green County, the daughter of the late Herbert Williams and Louise Frye Williams. She was the widow of George R. Minor, Sr.
She was preceded in death by two brothers, Linwood Williams and Elijah Williams; and one sister, Dora Brown.
She was a member of the Charlottesville Church of Christ Bible Way Worldwide and actively involved in the Mary Williams Senior Center.
She leaves to cherish her memory one son, George Minor Jr. and his wife, Alice of Charlottesville; two daughters, Delorise Scott and her husband, John of Charlottesville, and Frances Brown and her husband, Charles of Philadelphia, Pa.; one sister, Bertha Smith and her husband, William of Charlottesville; eight grandchildren, Johnetta Peatross, Joyce Washington, Paulette Scott, Erica Scott, George Minor, Lamont Minor, Sherice Minor, and Antonio Minor; 15 great-grandchildren; two devoted friends, Lucille Neubey and Larry Minor; numerous nieces and nephews; and a host of other relatives and friends.
Funeral Services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Charlottesville Church of Christ Bible Way Worldwide with the Bishop Rufus Hayes officiating. Interment
will follow in Oakwood cemetery.
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J.F. Bell Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Ronald Moneymaker
Mr. Ronald Lee Moneymaker, 48, of 193 Jordan Drive, died Thursday, Dec. 26, 2002, at Piedmont Medical Center in Rock Hill, S.C.
A native of Virginia, Mr. Moneymaker was a son of the late Walter Moneymaker and Helen Gibson Moneymaker.
He was of the Presbyterian faith and worked in the food service industry.
Surviving are his wife, Louise Jordan; two sons, Steven Hayes of Pennsylvania, and Don Hayes of Florida; his brother, Robert Moneymaker of Virginia; and his sister, Mary Powell of Virginia.
A memorial service was held at 4 p.m. Saturday at Bethelwoods Camp and Conference Center, with the Rev. John Reiter officiating.
The family received friends at the church.
Memorials may be made to Bethelwoods Camp and Conference Center, 922 West Mount Gallant Road, York, S.C. 29745 or the Salvation Army, 119 Charlotte Avenue, Rock Hill, S.C. 29730.
Cauthen Funeral Home, Rock Hill, S.C., was in charge of arrangements.
William Parson
Dr. William Parson, 89, an eminent physician and teacher who, in the course of his globetrotting career, played piano at Carnegie Hall, chaired a medical department at 35, revamped Uganda's medical school and did a brief stint as Idi Amin's personal physician, died in Seattle, Wash. died Monday, Nov. 25, 2002, of complications following a heart attack.
Dr. Parson dedicated his life to medical education and spent more than 60 years teaching medical students around the world. In semi-retirement, he had taught an introduction to clinical-medicine course at the University of Washington since 1993 and made rounds at the Puget Sound Veterans Affairs Medical Center each Tuesday until his death. As an unusually precocious young man, he gave a piano recital at Carnegie Hall at the age of 16. In his residency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, he discovered a hormone disorder, pheudohypoparathyroidism, after noticing that a patients body was actually manufacturing parathyroid hormone. It only appeared that it was not.
At 35, he was named chairman of the University of Virginia's department of internal medicine, a tenured position he held until he and his wife, Lucille, packed up everything and moved to Uganda's capital, Kampala, in 1966. Dr. Parson nurtured a lifelong love of Uganda. He was the chairman of the department of medicine at Makerere University, then part of the University of East Africa, which drew students from neighboring Kenya and Tanzania. In his tenure, Dr. Parson established the areas first residency program.
In 1971, Idi Amin, a military officer, over threw the Ugandan government. Although later known for feeding his enemies to crocodiles and the murder and torture of more than 100, 000 Ugandans, Amin had a first year less violent than the years to come. Shortly after the coup, he made Dr. Parson his personal physician.
Dr. Parson left Uganda after Amin's first year, when the dictator began expelling the country's long-established Asian community. Dr. Parson later told friends he was astonished by his former patient's atrocities. On his net trip to Uganda a few years later, the police yanked Dr. Parson and his wife out of bed and tossed them in jail. They escaped a day later when Mrs. Parson simply pushed at the cell's door, conveniently left unlocked.
Dr. Parson had a appetite for travel but never "without a purpose, " said William "Bill" Parson, one of his four sons and a professor of biochemistry at the University of Washington. He spent years hopping continents as a professor or advisor to universities in Indonesia, Zaire, Taiwan, China and Papua New Guinea.
His last full day at a retirement center, University House in Seattle, , Wash., was typically busy and eventful. In the morning, he and his wife presented a slideshow and brief talk on Uganda. That evening, Dr. Parson took stage and played a seductive resident of a retirement home in a play, "Mr. Lewis and Mrs. Wright."
Dr. Parson grew up in Bronx, N.Y., the son of two immigrants, a Polish mother and a Russian Father.
He briefly considered a musical career before deciding to attend Columbia college and then Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons.
He held teaching posts at numerous universities, including the University of California at Berkeley, Johns Hopkins and Stanford. In 1984, the American College of Physicians named him a "Master." Last year a group of former students and colleagues raised enough money to establish the William Parson Visiting Professorship in Teaching Excellence at the University of Virginia.
Dr. Parson is survived by his wife, Lucille; four sons, Jeffrey of Garberville, Calif., John of Columbus, Ohio, Thomas of Denver, Colo., and William of Seattle, Wash.; 11 grandchildren; and three great grandchildren.
The family requests that memorial contributions be made to the William Parson Visiting Professorship in Teaching Excellence at the University of Virginia, Box 400807, Charlottesville, Va. 22904.
Lula Miller Spicer
Lula Miller Spicer, 93, of Orange, formerly of Burr Hill, died Sunday, Dec. 29, 2002, at Orange County Nursing Home.
She was the daughter of the late Walter Lee Miller and Mattie Hume Miller.
In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by her husband, Robert Allen Spicer.
She is survived by one son, Robert A. "Sockie" Spicer of Rapidan; three grandchildren, Heather Spicer Powers, Logan Allen Spicer and William Steele Spicer, all of Rapidan; four great-grandchildren, Eric Christopher Powers, Olivia Marie Powers, Kelsey Joanne Spicer, and Korey Logan Spicer, all of Rapidan; one brother, George Franklin Miller of Unionville; and one sister, Gertrude Miller Hilton of Fairfax.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Preddy Funeral Chapel with interment in the Palmyra United Methodist Church cemetery in True Blue. The Rev. Barry Penn Hollar will officiate.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Preddy Funeral Home in Orange.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Orange County Nursing Home, 120 Dogwood Lane, Orange, Va. 22960 or the Orange County Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 446, Orange, Va. 22960.
Preddy Funeral Home, Orange, is in charge of arrangements.
Virginia Coppage Utz
Virginia Coppage Utz, 83, of Brightwood, died Sunday, Dec. 29, 2002, in the Martha Jefferson Hospital.
She was born Sept. 22, 1919, and was the daughter of the late Thomas and Eva Lohr Coppage.
In addition to her parents, she is preceded in death by a daughter, Janice U. Lacy; and a brother, Edwin Coppage.
She was employed by Clore and Hawkins Furniture Factory in Brightwood and retired from the Virginia Department of Transportation in Culpeper. She was a member of Bethsaida United Methodist Church in Brightwood.
She is survived by her husband, Ernest Bennett Utz of Brightwood; son, Steve L. Utz and wife, Lynn, of Madison; five brothers, Phil Coppage of Richmond, Charles Coppage of Brightwood, Harvey Coppage and wife, Peggy, of Vienna, Roger Coppage and wife, Anita, of Wichita, Kansas, and Floyd Coppage and wife, Shirly, of Cedar Crest, N.M.; two sisters, Florence McClean and husband, Bill, of Richmond, and Dorris Wenzel and husband, Jack, of Leesburg; son-in-law, Maxwell Lacy Jr. of Oak Park; five grandchildren, Jackie Utz, Jenny Utz, Jill Utz, Alan Lacy and wife, Melanie, and Mark Lacy; two great-grandchildren, Will and Cassity Lacy; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at Preddy Funeral Home Chapel in Madison, with interment in Bethsaida Untied Methodist Church cemetery in Brightwood. The Rev. Bill Clayton and Elder Toliver Utz will officiate.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Thursday evening at the funeral home.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Madison County Volunteer Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 868, or the Madison County Volunteer Fire Department, P.O. Box 255, Madison, Va. 22727.
Harry Channing Ward
A funeral service for Harry Channing Ward will be held 2 p.m. today at Hill & Wood Funeral Home, with the Rev. Sidney Craig officiating. Interment
will follow in Monticello Memory Gardens.
Contributions may be sent to Scottsville Rescue Squad, 805 Irish Road, Scottsville, Va. 24590.
Lore B. Albertson
Lore B. Albertson, 71, of Charlottesville, died Friday, March 14, 2003, in a local hospital.
She is survived by her husband, Edward Albertson.
Memorial Contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society for Breast Cancer Research, 3042-D, Berkmar Drive, Charlottesville, Va. 22901.
Teague Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.
Albert J. DeBiasi
Albert John "De Be" DeBiasi, 86, of Charlottesville, died Friday, March 14, 2003.
He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Victoria; three sons, Glenn Louis and his wife, Martha, of Hickory, N.C., Gary Lee and his wife, Deanne, of Concord, Calif., and Albert Peter and his wife, Katherine, of Kauai, Hawaii; and one grandson, Marcus of Hickory, N.C. He is also survived by a sister, Vera Mary Jess of Rockford, Ill.; a brother, Dr. Gilbert F. DeBiasi of Richmond; and numerous nephews and nieces.
He graduated from Virginia Tech in 1939. He served in the Army during World War II, achieving the rank of Major and received the Purple Heart for his action in Southern France. While in the Army he attended Harvard and MIT. He had a second tour of duty in the Army at Ft. Bliss, Texas where he taught RADAR. After the service, he worked with General Electric, Sperry, and the Foreign Service and Technology Center.
Interment will be at Arlington National cemetery.
The family requests that memorials be made to the Hospice of the Piedmont, 1490 Pantops Mountain Place, Suite 200, Charlottesville, Va. 22911, or the Albemarle-Charlottesville Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 160, Charlottesville, Va. 22907.
Lawrence Gooch Jr.
Lawrence S. Gooch Jr., 83, of Charlottesville, died Thursday, March 13, 2003, at the Cedars Nursing Home in Charlottesville.
He was born June 11, 1919 in Charlottesville and was the son of the late Lawrence S. Gooch Sr., and Bertha Jameson Gooch
He was a member of the First Presbyterian Church, the American Legion and the Veterans of Foreign Wars. He was a veteran of World War II and saw service in England with the U.S. Army Air Corps. He recently received an award for 50 years of service with the American Legion Post No. 74. He had been active in the American Legion baseball program, working with local youth in that activity and was an avid fan of UVa sports programs. He retired from the Dictaphone Company in 1982.
He is survived by his wife of 55 years, Caroyl Beddow Gooch; a daughter, Melinda A. Harris and her husband, Terry R. Harris of Gambrills, Md.
He was preceded in death by a sister, Charlotte Leftwich of Madison Heights; and is survived by sisters, Frances Miller and her husband, Robert W. Miller, of Charlottesville, and Doris Ashby and her husband, Finlay M. Ashby, of Lake Monticello. Also surviving are brothers-in-law, Thomas Frank Beddow and his wife, Doris, James Fulton "Fully" Beddow and wife, Margaret Ann; and a number of nieces and nephews.
A graveside funeral service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Monday in Monticello Memory Gardens with Dr. Sam Massey officiating.
The family would like to thank the staff of the Cedars Nursing Home for their care and compassion with Mr. Gooch.
The family suggest that in lieu of flowers memorials be made to a charity of your choice.
Teague Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
James C. Hyman Sr.
James C. Hyman Sr., 76, of Charlottesville, entered into eternal rest Thursday, March 13, 2003, at a local health care center.
He was the son of the late Harry and Evora Hyman.
He leaves to cherish his memory of a loving and devoted wife, Clara Hyman; one son, James C. Hyman Jr., of Philadelphia; four daughters, Mariah Powell, Ethel Edmonds, Mary Wade, all of Wash. D.C., and Emma Tillery, of Mount Ranier, Md.; four brothers, Ernest and William Shields, both of Philadelphia, Albert Hyman, of Georgia, Lee Curtis Shields, of Scotland, N.C.; three sisters, Clementine Tittman, Wyoming Brown, and Addie Harris, all of Philadelphia; 12 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild.
Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Oak Union Baptist Church with the Rev. Calvin Bolden officiating. Interment
will follow in the church cemetery.
McClenny Funeral Service Inc. is in charge of arrangements.
Eva W. Jackson
Eva Carroll Tonsler Winstead Jackson, died Saturday, March 15, 2003, quietly in Lynchburg, after a brief illness.
Born in Charlottesville, and raised in Bluefield, W. Va., Eva Carroll was a resident of Newport News for 58 years and concurrently of Lynchburg for the last 12 years.
She graduated from Genoa High School in Bluefield and Bluefield State College as well as did graduate work at the College of William and Mary. As a middle school teacher for 22 years of language arts in the Newport News School System’s Talented and Gifted Program. Eva Carroll won national recognition by the NEA. She was a charter member of the Newport News chapter of The Links, Inc. and enjoyed throughout her life membership in other social and community organizations in the Tidewater area. She was a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. Since retiring she remained active in the Verna Ridlay Circle of the Carver Memorial Presbyterian Church.
In addition to her husband, George F. Jackson of Lynchburg, she is survived by one daughter, Carolyn W. Meyers and her husband, James E. Cofield Jr., of Greensboro, N.C.; three grandchildren, Timothy C. Meyers III, of Atlanta, Lisa A. Meyers, of N.Y.; one great-grandchild, Miles Vincent Joseph of Atlanta; one great aunt, Estelle A. Bowler of Hot Springs; cousins, Angela Blayton and Omar Blayton, of Newport News, and Emma Tinsley and her husband, Wilbur, of Keswick; other children, grandchildren and relatives include, Cecelia J. Jaucian, Daniel, Charles, Kevin, Victor and Justine, of Raleigh, N.C., George F. Jackson Jr., Kathee, David, Maria, of Lawrence, K.S., Tim Jackson, Sandra, Chutara, Caleb, Rashaed, of Durham, N.C., and Jill J. Mills, Tony, Drew, and Alexandra, of Roswell, Ga.; a brother-in-law, A.W. Jackson, Deanna, Alden, Avis, of Capitol Heights, Md.; as well as members of the Winstead and Meyers families.
A celebration of Eva Carroll’s life will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday at Carver Memorial Presbyterian Church, Newport News.
She was loved by all and will be missed. In lieu of flowers, donations in her memory may be sent to Carver Memorial Presbyterian Church, 830 twenty-fith Street, Newport News, Va. 23607.
Tharp Funeral Home, Lynchburg, is in charge of arrangements.
