Local obituaries for Colonial Heights, VA.

Raymond Tirpak
Jun 23, 2014
Raymond Tirpak, 58, of Chester, passed away on Monday, June 23, 2014 at Southside Regional Medical Center in Petersburg, Virginia. He was born on September 6, 1955, to the late Michael and Johanna Schar Tirpak. Mr. Tirpak enjoyed his career as a forklift operator for ABC Builders Supply and Air Gas. He is survived by his daughter, April Wright and...
Arthur Barnes Jr.
Jun 19, 2014
Arthur John Barnes, Jr., 71, passed away on Thursday, June, 19, 2014 at Vibra Hospital in Richmond, Virginia. Born on September 29, 1942, he was the son of the late Arthur John Barnes, Sr. and Elizabeth Dettmer. He is predeceased by his son, David Wayne Barnes. Mr. Barnes was a member of Faith Baptist Church and loved to fish with...
Bernard Watts
Jun 19, 2014
Bernard Samuel Watts, 82, of Colonial Heights passed away on Thursday, June 19, 2014 at Colonial Heights Health Care and Rehabilitation Center. A native of South Boston, Virginia, he was the son of the late John Samuel Watts and Vena Louise Powell Watts. He was preceded in death by two brothers, Edward and Harvey Watts and a sister Lennie Clements....
Preston Flint
Jun 18, 2014
Preston Eugene Flint, 78, of Colonial Heights, formerly of Lexington, Virginia, passed away on Wednesday, June 18, 2014 at Southside Regional Medical Center. He was the son of the late Preston P. and Frances Nicely Flint. Mr. Flint was a United States Marine Corps veteran, and a retired truck driver. He was an outdoorsman who loved to hunt and fish,...
Timothy Allen
Jun 18, 2014
Timothy "Tim" Wayne Allen 52, of Hopewell, formerly of Petersburg, passed away on Wednesday June 19, 2014. He was the son of the late Robert Linwood Allen Sr. and Juanita Stell Allen. He is survived by his wife, Shirle Anne Allen; daughters, Roxanne Lynette Nichols and husband, Glen, Brandy Nicole Holly; step-daughter Misty Dawn Mayton, step-son James Edward Mayton IV...
Barbara Fick
Jun 14, 2014
Barbara Ann Cummins Fick, 80, left her family on Earth to be with her Lord and Savior on Saturday, June 14, 2014. Born on November 12, 1933, she was the daughter of the late Thomas and Annie Cummins. She was also preceded in death by her two sisters, Lois Regal and Mary Frances Reed. Barbara is survived by her husband...
Gisela Banze
Jun 13, 2014
Gisela Anna Katharina Banze, 85, of Prince George, Virginia passed away Friday, June 13, 2014 in Worms, Germany near her childhood home. Gisela married William, a career US Army officer, in 1952 and moved with him to the US where she was lovingly embraced by his family, to whom she remained close for the rest of her life. She became...
William Winstead
Jun 12, 2014
William Claude Lee Winstead, 70, of Petersburg, passed away on Thursday, June 12, 2014 at Southside Regional Medical Center. Born in Big Stone Gap, Virginia, he was the son of the late William B. and Margaret Payne Winstead, and was preceded in death by a sister, Joyce King. Mr. Winstead was a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of...
William Roop
Jun 9, 2014
William A. "Billy" Roop, 69 of Colonial Heights, passed away Monday June 9, 2014 at the Colonial Heights Health Care Center after an extended illness. He was the son of the late Archie C. and Louise J. Roop. Bill retired from PPG Industries, and was also employed for many years with Martin's Toyota and Oldsmobile in Colonial Heights as a...
Melvin Johnson
Jun 7, 2014
Melvin James Johnson, 86, of Chester, passed away on Saturday, June 7, 2014 at Chippenham Medical Center. He was the son of the late Fletcher and Pearl Jefferson Johnson. Mr. Johnson was a United States Navy veteran and a member of the American Legion Post # 2 in Petersburg. He is survived by his loving wife, Marie Johnson; children, Mark...
Danny Babb Sr.
Jun 6, 2014
Danny Eugene Babb Sr., 68, of Dinwiddie, passed away on Friday, June 6, 2014 at his residence. He was the son of the late Walter W. and Margaret Strange Babb, and was preceded in death by a brother, Walter W. Babb II; and a sister, Deborah K. Babb. Mr. Babb was currently employed as a Manager with the Process Welding...
Lois Dyson
Jun 5, 2014
Lois Jeanne Sanderson Dyson, 83, of S. Chesterfield, passed away on Thursday, June 5, 2014 at Southside Regional Medical Center. Born in Hopewell, she was the daughter of the late Leon A. and Dorothy Short Sanderson. She was preceded in death by her husband, John W. Dyson and brother, James Franklin Vaughan. She retired from Bank of America as an...
Jimmy Ellison
Jun 5, 2014
Jimmy Ellison, 73, of Prince George, passed away on Thursday, June 5, 2014 at his residence. Born in Middlesboro, Kentucky he was the son of the late Robert and Lennie Whitaker Ellison. Mr. Ellison was a retired Corrections Officer with the State of Virginia Department of Corrections. He is survived by two sons, Jimmy Wayne Ellison of Prince George and...
Brendan Gamble
Jun 3, 2014
Brendan Gene Gamble, age 70, died June 3, 2014; at John Randolph Medical Center in Hopewell, Virginia. Mr. Gamble was born September 16, 1943, to Michael and Mary Jane Mariniak Gamble in Petersburg, Va. He is survived by several aunts, uncles, many cousins, and a godson, Drew Button, of Charlotte, North Carolina. Mr. Gamble was raised a Catholic. He attended...
Kathleen Harris
Jun 2, 2014
Kathleen C. "Cap" Harris, 92, of Dinwiddie, passed away on Monday, June 2, 2014 at Southside Regional Medical Center. Born in Roanoke, Virginia she was the daughter of the late Everette E. and Inez Humphries Caffrey, and the widow of Clarence W. Harris Sr. She was preceded in death by two brothers, Everette Earl Caffrey and John W. Caffrey, and...
Beverly Cogle
May 30, 2014
Beverly Lewis Cogle, 85, born November 28, 1928, died peacefully at her home on May 30, 2014. She was predeceased by her parents, Guy G. and Daisy Smith Lewis, and her sister, Alice Lewis Lee. She is survived by her husband of 63 years, R. Jack Cogle; a sister-in-law, Peggy Cogle Quay; three daughters, Nancy Cogle Calhoun, Sandra Cogle Bondurant...
David Moore Sr.
May 29, 2014
David Lewis Moore Sr., 79, of Dinwiddie County, was called home Thursday, May 29, 2014. He was born February 24, 1935 to the late John Richard Moore Jr. and Mary Lou Lewis Moore, also predeceased in passing was a daughter, Anita Lynn Moore, and a brother, John Richard Moore III. Mr. Moore traveled throughout the United States during his career...

Margaret Collier
May 26, 2014
Margaret Collier, 80, of Petersburg, passed away on Monday, May 26, 2014. She was the daughter of the late Emmit R. and Celeste Bosher Collier, and was preceded in death by a brother, Wilson Collier and a sister, Mary Collier Beemer. She is survived by a son, Bobby Collier of Petersburg; a sister, Elizabeth Cole of Prince George; and numerous...
Raymond Harward
May 24, 2014
Raymond Wilson Harward, 87, of Colonial Heights, passed away on Saturday, May 24, 2014. Born on August 14, 1926 in Apex, North Carolina, he was the son of the late John Claude and Ruth Wilson Harward, and the widower of Mary Frances Williams Harward. Mr. Harward was a member of Calvary Baptist Church, Petersburg, and attended West End Baptist Church,...
Jessie Connett
May 24, 2014
Jessie Brooks Connett, 99, of Colonial Heights, passed away Saturday, May 24, 2014. Born October 28, 1914 in Vernon Hill, Virginia to the late James Gordon Brooks and Lena Belle Adams Brooks. Mrs. Connett was preceded in death by her husband, John Henry Connett. She was a member of Life Church in Colonial Heights, the Women's ministries of the church...
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