Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1936-2014
Etta R. Martin
Etta R. Martin, 83, of North Garden, died Sunday, March 16, 2003, in a local hospital.
Born November 29, 1919, in Albemarle County, she was the daughter of the late Edward and Elizabeth Via Glass.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, William Martin; three sons, Robert L. Martin, James E. Martin, and Louis W. Martin; and one sister, Ruby Sandridge.
She is survived by her two sons, Raymond Martin of Crozet and Jimmy Martin of North Garden; one daughter, Louise Thacker of Charlottesville; two brothers, Obea Glass and Eugene Glass, both of Faber; one half-sister, Polly Brown of Waynesboro; 13 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
A memorial service will be conducted 2 p.m. Wednesday at Teague Chapel. Interment
will be private.
The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at Teague Funeral Home.
Teague Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.
Layton R. McCann
A service for Layton Revere McCann, will be held at 1 p.m. today at Broadus Memorial Baptist Church with the Rev. Eric Howell and the Rev. Robert Wheeler officiating. Interment
will be private.
The family would like to express their appreciation to Dr. Gordon Morris and Dr. William Hammond and the staff of the ICU and South 7 of Martha Jefferson Hospital for their compassionate care and loving support.
In lieu of flowers the family requests memorial contributions to Broadus Memorial Baptist Church, 1525 Stony Point Rd. Charlottesville, Va. 22911.
Hill & Wood Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Charles McLanahan
Charles Jackson McLanahan "Jack", son of Ward and Genevieve McLanahan, of Hollidaysburg, Pa., died Sunday, March 16, 2003, in his home in Buckingham, from complications of pneumonia.
Jack was born December 1, 1911, and grew up in Blairton, W. Va., where his father was superintendent of four limestone quarries from 1910 to 1929. Jack graduated from high school in Martinsburg, W. Va., and from Phillips Andover Academy in Andover, Mass. After attending Yale University three years, he took his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Chicago in 1935. He earned a Master’s Degree in Sociology from Wayne State University in Detroit in 1964.
Jack enjoyed a long and illustrious career in credit unions and cooperatives, honored around the world for his significant contributions and thoughtful insights. While recognizing and applauding the many values that come from living in cities, he remained a staunch believer in and worker for small communities as the heart of civilization. He was heavily involved in all stages of the cooperative movement in this country, from 1936 until his death. The first endeavor was establishment of a co-op food store in Evanston, Ill., which served its members for 17 years. The year following the store’s opening, he and his partners organized a credit union that later grew to join the Illinois League. Then, on to Midland Cooperatives, organizing and serving already existing coops throughout the mid-west. From Midland, he moved to the Cooperative League of the USA, later named National Cooperative Business Association, in Chicago, and later to the Michigan Credit Union League "MCUL" in Detroit. As Director of Research and Development for MCUL, he and colleagues organized 400 new credit unions in one year. Jack authored the Code of Ethics for MCUL, which became the national model for other state credit union leagues.
The spiritual quest was always at the center of his life, whatever work Jack was doing along the way. Taking a four-year break from MCUL, Jack served as Director of Religious Education at Central Methodist Church in Detroit, one of the happiest periods of his life. He returned to MCUL for two more years, and then "retired" in 1962. In search of community, the McLanahans lived with the Society of Brothers in Pennsylvania for two years. Explorations in community continued with studies at Pendle Hill, a Quaker center near Philadelphia. Many years later, this same journey led to the Integral Yoga Institute in Buckingham, where the McLanahans moved in 1996.
Over a ten-year period, Jack taught many aspects of sociology at Cheyney State College in Pennsylvania and at Ferris State College and Lansing Community College in Michigan. He also taught short courses in cooperatives at University of Michigan and Michigan State University.
Retiring "again!" in 1977, Jack left Michigan for Central Appalachia to become Director of Education for Human/Economic Appalachian Development "HEAD" Corporation, in Berea, Ky. He nurtured already-existing co-ops and helped start others. As head of Mountain Education and Management Institute, a HEAD program, he and colleagues created Central Appalachian People’s Federal Credit Union to bring banking services to the scattered, very-low-income families in the coal-mining and lumbering areas of the mountains. Begun with federal financial assistance as one of the nation’s demonstration models of what can be accomplished by people working together for their common good, it has become nationally-known for its success in this field. The "Spirit of Cooperation Award" was set up in 1996 to honor its first recipients, Jack and Connie McLanahan, and given annually thereafter to other achievers.
During the late 1980s, Jack co-founded the Cooperative Alumni Association "CAA", an organization for colleagues all over the world who had retired from long co-op careers to continue contributing to this work in whatever ways they could. After 15 years, he turned the organization over to younger folk and started the Global Cooperative Society to expand the membership of the CAA and the range of concepts they might work on together.
Throughout his career, Jack wrote extensively for magazines, newspapers, and nationally and internationally-distributed cooperative and credit union newsletters and other publications. In 1952, he founded CONTACT, the flagship magazine of the MCUL. Editors who followed him have maintained the original high quality of writing and CONTACT continues to win first place awards. In 1990, he and his wife, Connie, published their book, Cooperative/Credit Union Dictionary And Reference. Enjoying wide circulation in the field, it is currently being used as a basic part of the recently inaugurated online co-op college course 101.
Perhaps the things of which Jack was most proud, as emblems of his spiritual and intellectual contributions to his world, are his appointment by President Truman in 1946 to serve a six-year term with the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization "UNESCO" Committee of 100; and his induction, together with Connie, into membership of the Cooperative Hall of Fame in Wash., D.C., in 1991.
Jack was preceded in death by his parents; his brother, James Craig; his niece, Jean McLanahan-Weaver; and his first wife, Anna Martin Findley of Altoona; a daughter of Dr. Joseph Dysart and Eliza Dean Findley. He is survived by his wife, Constance Ablett McLanahan; and their children, Michael and his wife, Astride, David and his wife, Gail, Martha and her husband, Gurnam, Sandra, C. Scott and his wife, Mary, and Eileen and her husband, Gary; 11 grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at the convenience of the family.
Arrangements by Plank, Stitt, & Stevens Funeral Home, 421 Montgomery St., Hollidaysburg, Pa. 16648.
Lorena H. O’Field
Lorena Holt O’Field, 84, of Scottsville, died Saturday, March 15, 2003.
Survivors include one son, Michael P. O’Field and his wife, Ruth, of Scottsville; two brothers, Clarence E. Holt and Campbell F. Holt, both of Scottsville; one nephew, Ross Haine and his wife, Elizabeth, of Lexington; three great-nephews, Scott, Holt, and Hunter Haine.
A graveside memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Scottsville cemetery, with the Rev. Dale E. Gillis officiating.
There are no calling hours scheduled.
The family expresses many thanks to the staff of Winterhaven for their kind and generous help of many years.
The family requests that flowers please be omitted and memorial contributions be considered for Hospice of the Piedmont, 1490 Pantops Mountain Place, Suite 200, Charlottesville, Va. 22911.
Thacker Brothers Funeral Home, Scottsville, is in charge of arrangements.
Richard P. Saunders
Richard Palmer Saunders, 76, of Charlottesville, died Friday, March 14, 2003, at his home.
Born August 17, 1926, to the late Aubrey R. Saunders Sr., and Fannie Mae Palmer. He is also preceded in death by his sister, Mildred S. Wood.
Survivors include his wife of 53 years, Nancy Wood Saunders; two sons, Richard L. Saunders and his wife, Betty, of Barboursville, and Ronald K. Saunders of Palmyra; two brothers, Aubrey R. Saunders, Jr., and James F. Saunders, both of Charlottesville; and a grand daughter Valerie K. Saunders.
Mr. Saunders attended Lane High School. He served his country during World War II in the U.S. Army. He dedicated 46 years of his life working as a shop foreman at Barnes Lumber Company. Mr. Saunders was also a member of the Hinton Ave. United Methodist Church.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. today at the Hill & Wood Funeral Home.
A funeral service will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Hinton Avenue United Methodist Church, with the Rev. Edward Hopkins officiating. Interment
will follow at Monticello Memory Gardens.
Contributions may be made to Hospice of the Piedmont, 1490 Pantops Mountain Place, Suite 200, Charlottesville, Va. 22911.
Carol L. Scott
Carol Lenore Culver Scott, 88, of Charlottesville, died Saturday, March 15, 2003, following a brief illness.
Carol Culver was born in Trent, S.D., and spent her early childhood on family farms in Iowa and N.D. In 1925, she moved with her family to Cedar Falls, Iowa, where she graduated as the valedictorian of her high school class. She graduated from the University of Northern Iowa, in Cedar Falls in 1934, and began a career as a school teacher that spanned more than 40 years.
In 1935, Carol Culver traveled to China, where she taught for two years at the Christian Herald Industrial Mission in Foujou. After returning to the U.S. in 1937, to study at Asbury College in Kentucky, she accepted an appointment to teach for an aboriginal group, the Santals, in the jungles of Bihar, north of Calcutta, Ind.
In 1942, she met and subsequently married
Roland W. Scott, a Methodist missionary who was then the principal of Woodstock School in Mussooric. Subsequently, they moved to Nagpur, in central Ind., where her husband worked with the National Christian Council of India.
In 1955, Carol Scott returned with her husband and four sons to the U.S., living for seven years in Glen Rock, N.J., where she resumed her teaching career. Except for a three year period when she lived in Geneva, Switzerland from 1962 to 1965, Mrs. Scott taught fifth and sixth grade for the next 20 years, first in N.J., and subsequently in Evanston, Ill., and Williamsburg, Va. She retired in 1976 and moved to Charlottesville with her husband in 1981 where she remained an active member of the community and of the First United Methodist Church in Charlottesville. Mrs. Scott moved with her husband to Westminster Canterbury of the Blue Ridge in 1990 and she remained there following his death in 1992.
Carol Scott is survived by her sister Zelda Pitcher, of San Jose, Calif.; her son, David C. Scott; and daughter-in-law, Corinne S. Scott, of Wash. D.C.; son, R. Gordon Scott; and daughter-in-law, Connie Scott, of Newport News; son, Robert E. Scott; and daughter-in-law, Elizabeth S. Scott, of Charlottesville; eight grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and a host of other family and close friends; her youngest son, Douglas R. Scott, died of a heart attack in 1995.
There will be a private side service on Saturday and a memorial service that will be scheduled at a later time. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that memorials be made to a favorite charity.
John P. Strubing
John P. Strubing, 28, died Saturday, March 15, 2003.
Beloved son of Louisa Condon Barrett and Philip H. Strubing; stepson of the Rev. Harold E. Barrett and Virginia M. Strubing; Brother of Alexandra L. Strubing; step-brother of Ashley B. Harper; grandson of Alice B. Hognet, Elizabeth H. Strubing and the late Martin Condon III and Philip H. Strubing.
A funeral service will be held 2 p.m. Tuesday at Emmanuel Episcopal Church Greenwood.
In lieu of flowers, contributions in his memory may be made to the New York Firefighters Burn Center Foundation, 21 Asch Loop, Bronx, New York, 10475 or the Episcopal High School, Alexandria, Va.
Hill & Wood Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Rose B. Christian
Rose Barksdale Christian, passed away Friday, March 14, 2003.
Born in Lynchburg on July 31, 1922, she was the daughter of Dr. Elisha Barksdale and Rosa Mcwane Barksdale.
She graduated from The National Cathedral School in Washington, D.C. She attended Sweet Briar College and was active with the U.S.O. during the second word war.
She was a member of the Va. Garden Club and the Junior League in Lynchburg. She was a Daughter of the American Revolution and the Confederacy. She worked with the Arnold Aerospace Development Center in Tullahoma, Tenn., and was a pioneer in early development of nuclear propulsion and rocket flight. She worked on the NS Savannah and the early Persing missile and Atlas rockets.
She had made her home in Charlottesville over the past 20 years and was a member of Grace Episcopal Church.
She is survived by three sons, Elisha Barksdale Kizer of Philadelphia, Pa., Ben Scott Hall of Lynchburg, and Randolph Croft Hall of Charlottesville; and five grandchildren.
Funeral arrangements are incomplete.
The family wishes that in lieu of flowers or memorial that donations be made in her name to the Charlottesville, Albemarle SPCA.
David B. Cooper
David Brian Cooper, 65, of Palmyra, formerly of New York, died Monday, March 17, 2003.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his first wife, and a grandson.
Survivors include his wife, Faye Jordan Cooper; two daughters, Pamela Huston and her husband, Michael, and Lynda Kreger and her husband, Steven, all of New York; two step-daughters, Heather Raynes and Elizabeth Raynes, both of Palmyra; one brother, Victor Cooper of New Jersey; one sister, Eileen Cooper of Cincinnati, Ohio; two granddaughters, Barbara Huston and Jackie Huston; and a number of other relatives.
Mr. Cooper was a retired science teacher with the New York City Schools.
A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. today at Thacker Brothers Funeral Home, Scottsville, with the Rev. Mike Jordan officiating. Interment
will follow at Rehoboth Mennonite Church cemetery, Schuyler.
Steve M. Eheart
Steve Michael Eheart, 45, of Crozet, died Sunday, March 16, 2003, at a local hospital.
He was born in Charlottesville on September 15, 1957, to the late Benjamin H. Eheart and Marie Layman Eheart.
He is survived by his wife, Judith Eheart; one son, Michael Wayne Eheart of Stuarts Draft; three step-grandchildren, Samantha Lawhorn, D.W. Lawhorn, and Brian Shifflett; five grandchildren, Donald Lawhorn, Kelsey Lawhorn, Alyssa Lawhorn, Brittney Shifflett, and Brian N. Shifflett; one sister, Patricia Coffee of Waynesboro; one brother, Benjamin Eheart Jr., of Charlottesville; a special mother-in-law, Ruth Shifflett; and three special friends, Gloria McCauley and her husband, Roger, of Free Union, and Ron Keiser of Stuarts Draft.
He loved to fish and camp in the outdoors and be near the ocean.
Family will receive friends today from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Anderson Funeral Home Chapel.
A funeral service will be held Thursday at 11 a.m. at Prize Hill in Boonesville, with interment in the church cemetery. The Rev. Greg Mayo will officiate.
Anderson Funeral Home, Crozet, is in charge of arrangements.
