U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
JONES
Marian L. Jones, 76, of Richmond, passed away July 28, 2001. She was preceded in death by her parents, Walter and Esabel Leonard and sister, Phyllis Boos. She is survived by a godchild, Barbara Perrin; and other loving cousins and relatives. Her remains rest at the Bliley Funeral Home's Chippenham Chapel, 6900 Hull Street Rd., where the family will receive friends 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 p.m. Monday. Graveside services will be held 2 p.m. Tuesday at Central Baptist Church Cemetery.
LEVI
Mrs. Edith K. Levi of Richmond departed this life Saturday, July 28, 2001. Remains rest at the Mimms Funeral Home, 19th and Hull Sts. Funeral notice later.
LEWIS
Departed this life on July 29, 2001, Patricia Lewis. Arrangements by Chiles Funeral Home, 2100 Fairmount Ave. Notice of funeral later.
McDANIEL
Twenty-nine year old Sybil "Renee" McDaniel of Chester was ushered into the waiting arms of our Lord Jesus Christ on the 28th day of July, 2001. She was preceded in death by her mother, Netta Carlock of Fayetteville, N.C. She is survived by her father, Jack Carlock of Fayetteville, N.C.; one son, Anthony Bonfardine and daughter, Chrissie Bonfardine, both of Chester; two sisters, Mrs. Gerri Goens and her husband, Rick of Chester and Mrs. Jackie Valenzuela of Fayetteville, N.C.; a brother, Allen Carlock and his wife, Becky of Fayetteville, N.C.; a nephew, Kevin Gray and his wife, Reginna; great-niece, Courtney Michelle of Richmond; a nephew, Terry Parker and his wife, Lisa of Fayetteville, N.C. She is also survived by her fiance, Jeff Martin of Chester and many, many loving friends. Renee was an associate of Ukrops Central Kitchen and a former member of the Southern Gospel Music Ministries "Singing For His Glory". Today Nay is having a private concert with the King of Glory. We love you and miss you, "Nay"! The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at The Upper Room Chapel, 7013 Dyer Lane, Richmond. Funeral services will be officiated by Pastor Wayne Martin at 2 p.m. Wednesday, also at The Upper Room Chapel, with interment at Dale Memorial Park.
ROACHE
Milton O. (Moe) Roache Jr., 78, of Harrisonburg, Va., formerly of Richmond, Va., departed this life July 28, 2001. He was born in Norfolk, Va. on September 25, 1922. He is survived by his wife of 53 years, Mildred Traynham Roache; three children, Edward R. (Ned) Roache of Louisa, Va., David Lawson Roache of Chesterfield, Va., and Margaret S. Roache of Charlottesville, Va.; two grandchildren, Edward R. (Randy) Roache Jr. of Blacksburg, Va. and Benjamin G. Roache of Louisa, Va.; and one sister, Margaret R. Ryder of Pensacola, Fla. He was a graduate of Virginia Tech, class of 1943. He was a decorated World War II veteran of the 84th Infantry Division (Rail Splitters). He was the founder of Roache, Mercer and Faison Consulting Engineers, past president of the Consulting Engineers Council of Virginia, past chairman of the Virginia Library Board, and a tireless member of many community and civic organizations. His loss will be deeply felt by all of his family and many friends. A memorial service will be held at Massanutten Presbyterian Church on Rt. 33 east of Harrisonburg, Va. on Saturday, August 4 at 1 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the Sunnyside Fellowship Fund Development Office, 100 Sunnyside Dr., Suite A, Harrisonburg, Va. 22801.
SAUNDERS
Evelyn Wakefield Saunders, 80, of Morristown, N.J., formerly of Richmond, widow of Bert Saunders, died Friday, July 27, 2001. She is survived by a daughter and son-in-law, Beth and Robbie Gross of Long Valley, N.J.; and a grandson, Matthew Gross. Her remains rest at the Parham Chapel, Woody Funeral Home, 1771 Parham Rd., where the family will receive friends 6:30 to 8 p.m. Monday. Graveside services will be conducted at 11 a.m. Tuesday in Greenwood Memorial Gardens. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Building Fund of Valley View Chapel, P.O. Box 430, Long Valley, N.J. 07853.
SIFF
Mandell Shevel Siff, 76, of Richmond, Va., and Boca Raton, Fla., died Sunday, July 29, 2001 in St. Mary's Hospital. He was born March 7, 1925 in Washington, D.C. He was the son of the late Hannah Shevel Siff and Samuel Robert Siff. On June 12, 1949, he married Jean Fleishman. In addition to his wife, he is survived by his children, Ellen Siff Krauss and Barry Krauss, Robert Siff and Valencia Siff, Sara Siff Katzin and David Katzin; and his grandchildren, Lee Baker Krauss, Lauren Siff, Stephanie Katzin, Mimi Krauss and Daniel Katzin. Shevel graduated from N.C. State in 1947 and served with honor in World War II with the 84th Infantry Division in the Battle of the Bulge. He received the Bronze Star for Bravery and a Purple Heart. He was a true patriot. He was the founder of Shevel's Men's Clothing Stores and owned El Rancho Trailer Court. He was a member of Temple Beth-El and B'nai Torah (Florida) and a founding member of the Jewish Community Center of Richmond. He was a former Board member of the Bank of Virginia, a Civitan, a Mason and a Kentucky Colonel. A funeral service will be held today, Monday, July 30, 2 p.m. at the Bliley Funeral Home's Central Chapel, 3801 Augusta Ave., with interment to follow in Richmond Beth-El Cemetery at Forest Lawn. He was loved and respected by all who knew him.
WILLIS
Bernice (Bea) A. Willis, lost a courageous battle with cancer on July 27, 2001. She was preceded in death by her parents, Ralph and Laura Evans; and two brothers, Rudolph and Ralph W. Evans Jr. Survivors include daughters, Darlene H. Blanks and her husband, Leslie, and Sharon W. Hutchins and her husband, Jack; sons, Johnnie C. Willis Jr. and his wife, Jackie, and Ralph N. Willis and his wife, Debbie; 14 grandchildren and five great-grandchildren. She retired from Chesterfield County Public Schools Facilities Dept. as dispatcher. She was devoted, nurturing and a pillar of strength for her family. She will be greatly missed. Her remains rest at the Bliley Funeral Home's Chippenham Chapel, 6900 Hull St. Rd., where the family will receive friends 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, and where funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Tuesday. Interment Dale Memorial Park. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society.
Meade Palmer
Jul 19, 2001
When award-winning landscape architect M. Meade Palmer was forced to retire from the University of Virginia School of Architecture faculty upon reaching the mandatory retirement age of 70 in 1986, students and colleagues were outraged.
So great was the protest that state officials overturned the regulation and he returned to the classroom the following year. From 1961 until the mid 1990s, he taught generations of U.Va. students plant identification and planting design.
Mr. Palmer, a pioneer and a giant in landscape architecture whose awards included the 1991 American Society of Landscape Architects Medal, the group's highest honor, died Monday in a Fauquier County hospital after a brief illness. He was 85 and lived in Warrenton.
He had operated an office and landscape architecture studio since 1948 in an old building he restored on Culpeper Street. The practice was "prominent but small. He wanted it to be personal and not overextended. He chose to be regional. He loved the mid-Atlantic," said Warren T. Byrd Jr., former chairman of the U.Va. Department of Landscape Architecture and Mr. Palmer's former graduate teaching assistant and employee.
Mr. Palmer's love for the land and plants in Virginia was inspired by his father, a Washington landscape contractor, and grew especially when Mr. Palmer went to work in Richmond for pre-eminent landscape architect Charles Gillette. Some of Mr. Palmer's best projects include the Carter's Grove Country Road at Colonial Williamsburg, Grayson-Highland State Park, Mason Neck State Park in Fairfax County, the capitol grounds in Annapolis, Md., and Richmond, Va., and the memorial garden at the Marriott headquarters outside Washington.
He designed the Lyndon Baines
Johnson Memorial Grove in Washington and had participated in design competitions for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Vietname War memorials in Washington.
When he died, he was working on the redesign of the cemetery in historic Thoroughfare Gap with directors of the Little Georgetown Foundation.
Mr. Palmer's work revolved about two themes: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it; and less is more." Describing his design philosophy in a 1991 interview, he said, "I do believe that we should treat nature with the greatest of care, and try to do what we do so it blends in (with nature) . . . so that when you get through, a person cannot tell whether you had been there or not."
His love of his profession and the outdoors "was pretty obvious in the way he lived," Byrd said. "He bought a 300-acre farm where he lived. He talked about how to 'make land,' to make pasture. He thought the greatest way to see a piece of property for a client was to ride across it on horseback.
"He gardened and raised animals. He had a pot-bellied pig, Dalmatians, fowls from peacocks to exotic chickens. They all had names. He was a true gentleman farmer." In 1988, the Virginia Society of the American Institute of Architects honored him for his inspiration and contributions to the architectural profession.
He was a former vice president of the American Society of Landscape Architects and the AIA's trustee for Virginia. The Arlington native graduated from Cornell University in 1939 and served as a Naval intelligence officer in the South Pacific during World War II.
After the war, Mr. Palmer and his wife, Isabel S. Palmer, whom he met in Hawaii, moved to Warrenton.
He was a founding member of the Partnership for Warrenton, dedicated to refurbishing Old Town Warrenton.
He designed the 19th century reproduction street lamps that the Partnership had been installing on Warrenton's Main Street.
Survivors, besides his wife, include a daughter, Sarah Palmer of Tucson, Ariz.
A memorial service will be Saturday at 1 p.m. at St. James Episcopal Church in Warrenton.
ARNOLD
Jack Wayne Arnold, 77, died December 8, 2001 at McGuire Veterans Hospital. He is survived by one sister, Vernell B. Yates of Richmond; several nieces and nephews. Private family burial.
CHAPMAN
Margaret O. Chapman, age 91, died Sunday, December 9, 2001. She is survived by two nephews, Nelson L. Kennedy Sr. and Donald R. Traser; seven great-nephews and one great-niece. Miss Chapman was a longtime member of St. Andrew's United Methodist Church (formerly Laurel Street Church), where she taught Sunday School for many years, and was retired from High's Ice Cream. A graveside service will be conducted at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, December 12, in Riverview Cemetery. Arrangements by Bliley Funeral Home's Central Chapel.
COOPER
Robert Samuel Snead "Bobby" Cooper went home to be with the Lord while down on his knees one last time December 6, 2001. He was born December 19, 1937. He attended Virginia Randolph School and later graduated from Virginia State University, where he mastered the skill of plastering (dry wall mechanic). He was preceded in death by his wife, Joan Cooper. He leaves to cherish his memory six daughters, Bobbette C. Davis, Jennifer C. Knight, devoted Karen R. Cooper, Daphne D. J. Cooper, Robyn L. Cooper, and Cherie C. Miles; 16 grandchildren, among them one devoted, Ricky Cooper; 10 great-grandchildren; one aunt, Alvera Cooper; a host of cousins, other relatives and friends, among them, one devoted friend, Eddie. Remains rest at Walter J. Manning Funeral Home, 700 N. 25th St., where the family will receive friends Tuesday, 7 to 8 p.m., and where funeral services will be held Wednesday, 1 p.m., Rev. Melvin
Williams officiating. Burial Oakwood Cemetery.
DUNNAVANT
Robert Lee Dunnavant, age 69, of Midlothian, died Sunday, December 9, 2001. Mr. Dunnavant was an employee of the Virginia Department of Transportation, Powhite Parkway Extension, and a retiree of the Richmond Times Dispatch Circulation Department. He is survived by his wife, Janet Harrell Dunnavant; and eight children, Mary Dunnavant Spears and husband, Mark, Kathy Lynn Dunnavant and her longtime companion, Andy Tinnell, Lee Dunnavant and husband, Roger Upchurch, Dana Dunnavant
Jones and husband, Brian, D. Noelle Reekes and husband, Ron, Randall F. "Mickey" Moseley and wife, Lisa, Kyle L. Moseley and wife, Cindy, and Todd H. Moseley and wife, Samantha; eight grandchildren, "Pop Pop" to Colin Dean Herron, Keyan James Herron, Laura Ann Spears, "Bucky" to Addison Forrest Reekes, Logan Alexander Moseley, Sutton Dillard Reekes, Henley Marie Moseley, and Bailey
Carter Moseley; sister, Jeannine D. Collins and husband, Clifford; and brother, Greer M. Dunnavant; three nieces, and three nephews. The family will receive friends Tuesday, December 11, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Bliley Funeral Home's Chippenham Chapel, 6900 Hull Street Rd. The funeral service will be private.
EDWARDS
Manchee Lafayette Edwards departed this life suddenly December 8, 2001. Arrangements by Chiles Funeral Home, 2100 Fairmount Ave. Notice of funeral later.
EWELL
Edgar Bell Ewell Jr., age 91, of Yorktown, Va., died Sunday, December 9, 2001. Mr. Ewell was born Deember 15, 1909 in Richmond. He graduated from Randolph Macon Academy in 1929 where he was Captain Adjutant. Moving to the Washington, D.C. area, he was a longtime resident of Alexandria and attended Strayer College. He joined the old National Bank of Washington, retiring as Assistant Vice President in 1971 after 42 years of service. Since 1976 he has resided at his current residence in Yorktown. Mr. Ewell was preceded in death by his wife of 46 years, Lucy Byrd Sutton Ewell of King and Queen County. He is survived by his wife, Marjorie Young Ewell; daughter, Mary Steed Sutton Ewell of Saluda; son, Gregory Sutton Ewell and his wife, Jill; and granddaughters, Emily and Ellen all of Alexandria. The family will receive visitors at his home at 105 Sylvia Drive, Yorktown Tuesday evening (tonight) from 6 to 8 p.m. Funeral services will be held 11 a.m. Wednesday in Smyrna Christian Church, Bruington. Interment church cemetery. Arrangements by Bristow-Faulkner Funeral Home, Saluda. The family suggests in lieu of flowers memorial gifts may be made to Randolph Macon Academy c/o Col. John Piazza, 200 Academy Drive, Front Royal, Va. 22630.
