Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1936-2014
Geraldine E. Peirce
Geraldine Elizabeth Peirce, 75, of Rockfish Lane, Faber died Saturday Jan. 31, 2004 in a Charlottesville Hospital.
Born April 20, 1928 in New York City she was a daughter of the late Joseph M. Elcho and Mary "Mae" Jadigo. While living in New Jersey for 25 years, Mrs. Peirce was co-founder and volunteer for THE FISH (a Neighbor-helping-Neighbor group), two time Chairman of STELLARAMA (Sussex County unit of American Cancer Society variety show fundraiser), longtime member and President of the Sussex County Business and Professional Women’s Club, Co-Founder and 1st President of Domestic Abuse Services, INC. (A shelter program of victims of domestic violence) and also served as a hotline and victim’s advocate. She was also awarded a plaque and honored as Volunteer of the Year of Domestic Abuse Services, INC. After moving to Nelson County she continued her community involvement as a member of BPW, NOW and Senior Statesmen of Virginia. She also was a past President and Secretary for the Rockfish Valley Ruritan Club, Incoming Secretary for 2002, Chairman for eight years for "March Madness Flea Fair" (a community service and fundraiser for the Rockfish Valley Ruritan Club), seven year Food Chairman for the annual Ruritan horse show, two year Chairman for the Virginia Miniature Horse Show held at Ruritan Park, Chairman of the Rockfish Valley Ruritan Club 50th Anniversary Dinner and Celebration in 2000, compiled the 50th Anniversary Cookbook for the Rockfish Valley Ruritan Club, Editor for the RVRC monthly newsletter since 1997 and served as Public Relations Chairman. Mrs. Peirce was also an on-call volunteer with SHE (Shelter for Help in Emergency) and a charter member of the Rockfish Valley Community Center.
Besides her parents she is also preceded in death by one sister: Joan E. MacGregor; and her husband Earl Peirce.
She is survived by two sisters: Janet A. Psychas of Palm City, Fla. and Jean M. Dunn and husband, John, of Rock Tavern, N.Y.; a stepdaughter, Sharon Corbin and husband, Charles; two stepsons: Gregory Peirce and Stephen Peirce; cousins Lynn and Jack Balchunas of Amherst; step grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends from 1 to 2 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2004 at the Wells/Sheffield Funeral Chapel in Lovingston. (434) 263-4097
William L. Poindexter
William Lee "Billy" Poindexter, 32, of Gordonsville died Saturday, Jan. 31, 2004, at the Cedars Nursing Home in Charlottesville.
He was born on July 9, 1971 in Charlottesville.
He is survived by his parents, Wallace Tennyson Poindexter Jr. and Dolly Fincham Poindexter of Gordonsville; two brothers, Michael Anthony Poindexter of Gordonsville and Dennis James Poindexter of Barboursville; two sisters, Patricia Ann Wood of Gordonsville and Jeannie Lynn Staton of Louisa; three nieces, four nephews, two great-nieces, one great-nephew, and a host of other relatives and friends.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 7, 2004 at the home of Patricia and Tim Wood in Gordonsville.
The family will receive friends following the service.
Preddy Funeral Home in Orange is in charge of arrangements.
David A. Poston
After a lengthy battle with lung cancer, Dave passed away on Saturday, Jan. 31, 2004, with his wife of 50 years, Barbara, by his side.
Dave was a native Washingtonian born on Dec. 19, 1930. He was the son of the late Herbert W. Poston and Evelyn Lipscomb Poston.
His accounting career was spent in the automotive industry until his retirement and his move to Earlysville in 1992.
He became a school bus driver for the city of Charlottesville and was beloved by the parents of those children he drove. They kept him in chocolate chip cookies and many hugs.
His quick wit and fun-loving ways endeared him to all who knew him. He drove the "Blue Bus" #715 and was known as the "good luck" charm to the CHS Black Knight football team.
He was a member of the Hinton Avenue Methodist Church Men’s Club.
While living in the D.C. area, he was a member of the "Marylandaires" barbershop chorus.
He was a graduate of Western High School in Washington, D.C., and Ben Franklin University.
While he and his wife had no children, he was an "uncle" to many nieces and nephews.
He will be greatly missed by his lap dog, LuLu. He asked to be remembered to all the kids he drove over the years.
A funeral service will be conducted at 10 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2004, in the chapel of the Hill & Wood Funeral Home with the Rev. Suzanne Hylton-Smith officiating.
Burial will follow at 1 p.m. in the Isaiah Clem cemetery in Fort Valley.
A luncheon will be offered at Oak Level Methodist Church following the burial.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. this evening at the funeral home.
The family expresses their thanks to Hospice of the Piedmont and especially Margaret Sutton for their loving care and concern.
Friends who wish may send flowers or make a memorial contribution to Hospice of the Piedmont, 1490 Pantops Mountain Place, Suite 200, Charlottesville, VA 22911.
Hill & Wood Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.
Lizzie Florence Taylor
Lizzie Florence Taylor, 89, of Madison died Sunday, Feb. 1, 2004 at Autumn Care of Madison.
Born July 21, 1914, in Madison County, she was the daughter of the late Willie Bulger Taylor and Bessie Kirtley Taylor; and wife of the late James N. Taylor.
Mrs. Taylor was a lifetime member of the Church of the Brethren at Middle River, lifetime member of Madison Home Demonstrators and member of Madison Senior Citizens.
She is survived by three daughters, Lillian T. Tanner of Reva, Susie T. Stallings and husband, Joseph, of Staunton, and Louise T. Utz and husband, Don, of Oak Park Road, Madison; seven grandchildren, Mike and Rusty Tanner, Joe Stallings Jr., Donnie Utz Jr., Vicki Elmore, Paul "Moose" Utz, and Donna "Tinker" Deane; ten great-grandchildren, Jamie and Brian Tanner, Zack and Tai Stallings, Chris and Katie Utz, Jeannine and J.P. Utz, Aaron Elmore and Timberly Deane; and one great-great-grandchild, Caden Tanner.
She was also preceded in death by a grandson, Gregory Utz; six brothers and six sisters.
Funeral services will be held at 12 noon Thursday, Feb. 4, 2004, at Preddy Funeral Home chapel in Madison with interment at Mount Carmel Baptist Church cemetery in Haywood. Elder Toliver Utz will officiate.
The family will receive friends one hour before the service Thursday at the funeral home.
Preddy Funeral Service in Orange is in charge of the arrangements.
Sylvia Marie Wright
Sylvia Marie Wright, 50, of Dyke, VA, formerly of Roanoke, departed this life and went to be with the Lord on Jan. 29, 2004.
She taught in the Roanoke City Public School system for 27 years. Many of the years were spent working as a Guidance Counselor.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Nancy Jenkins Wright; a sister and brother, Ceola and David Wright.
She is survived by a loving and devoted father, Nathaniel C. Wright Sr.; sisters, Frances Collick of Charlottesville; Elaine Brown of Washington, D.C.; brother and sister-in-law, Nathaniel C. and Judy Wright Jr. of Springfield; brother and sister-in-law, Sylvester M. and Gabrielle L. Wright of Richmond; brother William C. Wright III of Dyke; ten aunts and uncles; Gennevie Jenkins of Charlottesville, Edna Jenkins of Virginia Beach, William Jenkins of Charlottesville, Louie Jenkins of Washington, William Wright II of Dyke, Walter Wright of Charlottesville, Wilbur and Bernice Wright of Earlysville, and Julius and Emma Pryor of Charlottesville; twelve nieces and nephews, William, Wade, Cornell, Alan, Clinton, Trina, Larry, Marcus, Chad, Catherine, Erin and Tommieka; and a host of other relatives and friends.
Funeral service will be held at 1:00 p.m. Wednesday at Mount Sinai Baptist Church, Earlysville, with Rev. James Washington officiating. Rev. William Lee of Loudon Avenue Christian Center, Roanoke, will be delivering the Eulogy. Interment
will follow in the Wright’s Family cemetery, Dyke.
The family will receive friends from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday in the chapel of the J.F. Bell Funeral Home, Charlottesville.
J. F. Bell Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Minor Wayne Hill
Minor Wayne Hill, age 50, of River Road, Faber, died Saturday morning, Jan. 31, 2004, at the Avante at Waynesboro.
Born April 9, 1953, in Charlottesville, Minor was a son of the late Edward McCallum Hill and Virginia Harris Hill. Besides his parents he was preceded in death by his brother James Edward Hill. He was a member of Adial Baptist Church.
He is survived by his loving and devoted sisters, Emma J. Cash and husband, Michael, and Judy A. Higgins and husband, Rodney, all of Waynesboro. A nephew Michael W. Cash II; two nieces, Jennifer H. Higgins and Katelyn N. Higgins, all of Waynesboro, and several cousins.
A funeral service will be held Monday, February 2, 2004, at 11:00 A.M. at Adial Baptist Church with Rev. Evan Johnson officiating with Interment
to follow in the church cemetery.
The family will receive friends today from 7 - 8 P.M. at the funeral home and suggest that memorials take the form of contribution to Adial Baptist Church Building Fund, 1090 Adial Road, Faber, Virginia 22938.
Arrangements By Wells/Sheffield Funeral Chapel of Lovingston (434-263-4097).
John M. Hudspeth
John Martin Hudspeth died at his home Monday evening, Jan. 26, 2004.
Survivors include his wife, Candace (Candy) Hudspeth; two daughters, Robin Hudspeth and Wendy Hudspeth; a son, Chris Hudspeth; a sister, Jean Goddard of Bloomfield Hills, Mich.; his sister-in-law, Sandra Brugger of Waterton, Conn.; a nephew, Nicholas Goddard of Durham, N.C.; two nieces, Joanna Goddard of New York City, N.Y., and Lucy Goddard of New Haven, Conn.
John attended the United States Naval Academy (1973) and served in the submarine service on the Robert E. Lee (1974-1976) based in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and the Flying Fish (1977-1979) based in Virginia Beach. After resigning his commission in 1979, John attended the Darden Business School, University of Virginia (1981).
A lifelong soccer enthusiast, John played goalkeeper in college, coached several youth soccer teams, and most recently served as manager of his son’s U16 Lightning Express team for the Soccer Organization of Charlottesville (SOCA).
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 1, 2004, at the Church of Our Saviour on East Rio Road, Charlottesville. The family will receive friends immediately after the service in the church parish hall. Memorial contributions may be made to the Soccer Organization of Charlottesville (SOCA), 370 Greenbrier Drive, Charlottesville, VA 22901; Hospice of the Piedmont, 1490 Pantops Mountain Place, Suite 200, Charlottesville, VA 22911; or the Kidney Cancer Association, 1234 Sherman Ave., Suite 203, Evanston, IL 60202.
Harry L. Marshall
Harry Lee Marshall, 72, of Charlottesville, passed away Friday, Jan. 30, 2004, at Martha Jefferson Hospital following a brief illness.
Born October 18, 1931, in Charlottesville, he was the son of the late Joseph Andrew Marshall and Mamie Herring Marshall. He was also preceded in death by three brothers, Willard Marshall, Gaines A. Marshall and George W. Marshall; and a nephew, Lewis Marshall.
Harry was a graduate of William Monroe High School; he served with the United States Navy and retired after 30 years of service as a Detective with the Charlottesville Police Department, and was a partner of Mar-Shall Hairstylists.
He was a Charter member of the Thompson Hall Lodge # 5 FOP where he was a Past-President; a Life Member of the BPOE #389 and served as a past trustee; he was a member of the Loyal Order of Moose Lodge # 1028 since 1974, a member of the American Legion Post #74; and a member of the Young Business Men’s Association; and a member of the Church of Our Saviour Episcopal Church.
He is survived by his wife of 40 years, Sally Franklin Marshall of Charlottesville; his son, Charles "Chuck" E. Marshall and his wife, Sandie, of Charlottesville; his daughter, Barbara "Barbi" M. Morris and her husband, Jim, of Palmyra; a brother Walter L. Marshall and his wife, Marie, of Lexington; four grandchildren, Tiffany Ann Marshall, Nicholas A. Morris, Danielle A. Morris and Scott D. Greenwood, Among the number of nieces and nephews he loved, Becky T. Marshall of Greene Co. was very special; a sister-in-law, Betty Franklin Phillips and her husband, Bill; mother-in-law, Mae "Kitty" Dickerson of Charlottesville; special friends, Warren and Ginny Stallings of Charlottesville; Mae and Don Quesenberry of Charlottesville as well as many more close friends.
A funeral service will be conducted at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, February 3, 2004, at Church of Our Saviour Episcopal Church with the Rev. Harold H. Hallock, Jr. officiating.
Honorary pallbearers will be James Haden, Bill Roudabush, Stuart Glass, Bill Davis, Julian Taliaferro, Mac Sloan, Otis Haggard, and Russell Marshall.
Burial will follow at Monticello Memory Gardens with Elk Rites.
The family will receive friends Monday Evening from 6 to 9 p.m. at the Hill & Wood Funeral Home.
In lieu of flowers, please make memorial donations to the Hospice of the Piedmont, 1490 Pantops Mountain Place, Suite Hospice of the Piedmont, 1490 Pantops Mountain Place, Suite 200, Charlottesville, Va. 22911, Church of Our Saviour Episcopal Church, 1165 East Rio Road, Charlottesville, Va. 22901, or to a charity of your choice.
William McClintic, Jr.
William Newton McClintic Jr., 84 of Lynchburg, died Friday, Jan. 30, 2004, at Virginia Baptist Hospital. He was the husband of the late Roberta Henderson McClintic and a retired stock trader for Strader & Company.
He was born November 19, 1919, in Lynchburg, the son of the late William Newton McClintic and Ethel Myers McClintic.
He attended Lynchburg High School, where he was the captain of the football team. He graduated from Massanutten Military Academy where he was a member of the varsity football team and an All-American swimmer. He attended the University of North Carolina and was a member of Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity. He also served in World War II during the Allied invasion of Europe. He was a member of Oakwood Country Club and past member of the Virginia Bond Club and the Securities Traders Association.
He is survived by two sons, William Newton McClintic, III, and his wife, Stuart, of Charlottesville, Abbot Henderson McClintic and his wife, Beth, of Raleigh, N.C.; and five grandchildren, Molly, Grace, Willy, Caroline, and Abbot; two sisters-in-law, Lucinda H. Hurt of Lynchburg and Abbot H. Howard of Charlotte, N.C.
A memorial service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2004, at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. The family will receive friends after the service at Oakwood Country Club.
In lieu of flowers, the family request memorials to be made to St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, 605 Clay St., Lynchburg, Va. 24504.
Tharp Funeral Home and Cremation Center, Lynchburg, is assisting the family, 434-237-9424.
Art Morgenstern
Art Morgenstern, 64, died suddenly Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2004, at his Lake Monticello home.
He grew up in New York City, where he was active in the Civil Air Patrol and high school football. After leaving his dad’s furniture business, Art worked as a disc jockey in Pennsylvania and New York. In 1972, he joined ABC-TV in Hollywood as an audio engineer and worked for 25 years doing news, quiz shows and soap operas at the lot. During the late ’70s and early ’80s, Art covered all the Olympic games (he was privileged to do audio on the famous U.S. hockey win), the Academy Awards and major PGA Golf tournaments. He worked for "Good Morning America" for five years, setting up audio for live interviews on the show. He often talked about how lucky he was to have met and put microphones on such people as Jamie Lee Curtis, Frank Sinatra and former Russian President Mikhail Gorbachev. Art thoroughly enjoyed his work, particularly the extensive travel throughout the country for various location shoots.
Although Art lived in Lake Monticello for less than a year, he had already joined the Charlottesville Astronomical Society (a new interest) and the Fluvanna County Remote Control Flying Club, his lifelong hobby. Just boating around the lake on a pretty day brought him much happiness; he felt he was blessed in many ways. Art loved the area and above all, the people he met here. His joy of life and sense of humor made him memorable to old and new friends.
Art will be sorely missed ... but as a close friend said, "God wanted a good laugh on the 14th and naturally picked Art."
He is survived by Cynthia, his wife of 36 years, and his sister-in-law, Carol and her family. Art had just returned from a trip to Florida to visit with Carol, her husband, Cameron, and their son, Thomas.
Arrangements were made by Sheridan Funeral Home in Kents Store.
