Barbara Ann Wallace
Apr 11, 2014
Barbara Ann Wallace, 82, widow of John T. Wallace, Jr., passed away Friday, April 11, 2014. A lifelong resident of Fox Hill, she retired as a cafeteria worker with the Hampton City Schools. She was a member of Fox Hill Central United Methodist Church.
Barbara is survived by her children, Julia Ann Sadler, John "Buster" T. Wallace,...
Johnny Cathcart
Apr 10, 2014
SGM(Ret) Johnny Cathcart, 71, passed away at his home Thursday, April 10, 2014 after a long illness. Born in Spartanburg, SC, he had been a resident of Hampton for over 20 years. He retired after 30 years in the US Army, which included service with the 82nd Airborne Division, and overseas in Vietnam, Japan and Germany, and as Sergeant...
Johnny Cathcart
Apr 10, 2014
SGM(Ret) Johnny Cathcart, 71, passed away at his home Thursday, April 10, 2014 after a long illness. Born in Spartanburg, SC, he had been a resident of Hampton for over 20 years. He retired after 30 years in the US Army, which included service with the 82nd Airborne Division, and overseas in Vietnam, Japan and Germany, and as Sergeant...
John Voss
Apr 9, 2014
John Lawrence Voss, 83, passed away Wednesday, April 9, 2014. Born in Appleton, WI, he has been a resident of Hampton since 1971 where he retired from Ft. Monroe as a civil service systems analyst.
John was a veteran of the Korean War, serving in the Army Air Corps from 1947-1952. He was a member of Immaculate...
Jean Greenwell
Apr 9, 2014
Jean Windsor Greenwell, 83, passed away Wednesday, April 9, 2014. Born in Washington DC, she has been a resident of Hampton for over 50 years. She was formerly of Leonardtown, MD where she was a 1948 graduate of St. Mary's Academy.
Jean worked as a receptionist at Ft. Eustis in the 1960's. There, she was awarded an...
Kathy Regina Odom
Apr 6, 2014
Kathy Regina Odom, 60, died Sunday, April 6, 2014. A native of Harrington, Maine, she had been a Hampton resident since 1967 where she worked as an Instructional Assistant at Machen Elementary School retiring in 2013 after 14 years of service. A 1972 graduate of Kecoughtan High School, she enjoyed playing BINGO and fishing and loved to spend summers...
Helen Elaine Mcdermott
Apr 6, 2014
Helen Elaine McDermott, 87, widow of Deacon Robert James McDermott, passed away Sunday, April 6, 2014. Born in Bayside, NY she was formerly of Palm Coast, FL, and has been a Newport News resident for 10 years.
Helen is survived by her daughter, Gail McWhorter and her husband Tom; sons, Stephen McDermott and his wife Marietta and...
Walter Ford
Apr 5, 2014
Walter D. "W.D." Ford, 89, passed away on Wednesday, April 2nd, at York Convalescent Center. Born in Rice, VA, he moved to the Hampton Roads area as a young boy and was a resident of Hampton for 80 years. He retired from Newport News Shipyard where he worked in the tool room and prior to that worked at Goodman...
Hazel Fultz Gard
Apr 5, 2014
Hazel Fultz Massengill Hartley Gard, 84, widow of Gillis Massengill and Herbert Gard, passed away Saturday April 5, 2014. Born in Tazewell, TN, she has been a resident of Hampton since 1954, where she retired from Avon Fashions in Newport News.
Hazel was preceded in death by her parents, Meddia and Henry Fultz; son, Rickie Alvin Massengill;...
Ernest W. Waldon
Apr 4, 2014
Ernest W. Waldon, 71, died Friday, April 4, 2014. A longtime Hampton resident, he was a member of the Hampton Moose Lodge #1514.
Survivors include his wife, Martha Beeler Waldon; two step-children, Jessie Bagwell and Ronald Beeler, Jr.; three siblings, Ray Waldon, Esther Ryan and Thomas Crockett; nine grandchildren; and thirteen great-grandchildren.
A gathering of...
Juanita Creasy Haskins
Apr 4, 2014
Juanita Creasy Haskins died peacefully on Friday, April 4, 2014 at age 92. A native of Hampton, she retired from NASA as a Librarian and moved to Chambrel of Williamsburg for 12 years and then moved to Verena At The Reserve in Williamsburg.
She was preceded in death by her first husband Joseph T. Soter and her...
Frederick Ray Wingate, Jr.
Apr 3, 2014
Frederick Ray Wingate, Jr., 68, passed away Wednesday, April 3, 2014 after a six month battle with cancer. He was born in Greenville, NC and moved to the Peninsula when he was 8. Freddie graduated from Hampton High School in 1966 and was employed by Newport News Shipyard when he retired after 41 years of service.
Freddie...
Paul Granville Gresham
Apr 2, 2014
Paul Granville Gresham died April 2, 2014 in Philadelphia, PA surrounded by family after a heroic fight with cancer. Paul was born on July 3, 1928 in Newport News, VA. He attended Newport News High School and Clemson College, where he majored in Engineering and played football as a defensive tackle. He continued his education at the Apprentice School of...
Shirley Johnson Cardwell
Apr 2, 2014
Shirley Johnson Cardwell, 86, widow of Arthur B. Cardwell, passed away Wednesday, April 2, 2014. A lifelong resident of Fox Hill, she retired from the Hampton Public School system, where she was a cafeteria worker. She was a member of Wallace memorial United Methodist Church, Ladies Auxiliary of the Fox Hill Volunteer Fire Department, honorary member of the State...
Renee Thompson
Apr 1, 2014
French native, Renee J. Thompson, 89, passed away on Monday, April 1, 2014. A Peninsula resident for 18 years, she came to the US in 1958, and was a member of the Peninsula French Club. On any given day, she could be found outside, taking her daily walk or at the Yorktown Market on Saturdays. We will miss her...
Victoria Quinn
Apr 1, 2014
Victoria Anne Bressette Quinn "Vickie", 64 years, died Tuesday, April 1, in Hampton, VA. A native of Hampton, Vickie graduated from Hampton High School and had a long career in real-estate services. Her last 15 years of employment were at Harrison & Lear Realtors where she was Executive Assistant to Thomas T. Thompson, President and then Chairman of the...
Paula R. Rawles
Mar 29, 2014
Paula R. Rawles, 48, died Saturday, March 29, 2014. A lifelong Peninsula resident, she retired from NASA in September 2013 after 31 years of service.
Preceded in death by her father, Thomas Rawles, and two sisters, Patricia Wyche and Denise Jones; she is survived by her mother, Dorothy Rawles; six siblings, Thomas, Jr. (Trudy), Lynwood (Cynthia), Michael...
Catherine Nora Binniker
Mar 28, 2014
Catherine Nora Binniker, 65, died Friday, March 28, 2014. A native of Brooklyn, New York, she had been a Peninsula resident since 1986 where she was a member of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Catholic Church. She retired as Executive Secretary for the 480 th Intelligence Wing at Langley Air Force Base in 2012 after more than 24 years...
H. Manning Woodward Jr.
Mar 28, 2014
H. Manning Woodward, Jr., 86, died unexpectedly at home Friday, March 28, 2014. Born in Louisa, he had lived on the Peninsula since 1999 where he was a member of First United Methodist Church, Hampton.
After service in the Navy during World War II, he attended the University of Richmond and then graduated from Echols College of...
George John Graf
Mar 28, 2014
George John Graf, 87, died Friday, March 28, 2014. A native of Maspeth, NY, he had been a Hampton resident since 2012. He served in the US Army.
Survivors include his daughter, Eva Cotich of Hampton; and three grandsons, Greg Cotich of Hampton, Chris Cotich of New York, and Eric Cotich of Hampton.
Burial will...
