Local obituaries for Colonial Heights, VA.

Patrick O'Steen
Mar 7, 2009
Patrick Wayne "Pat" O'Steen, 51, of Colonial Heights, passed away on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at Southside Regional Medical Center. He was preceded in death by his mother, Wilda Killian O'Steen. He was a 1977 graduate of Colonial Heights High School. Pat was the owner of Signature Automotive. He is survived by his wife, Sandra O'Steen of Richmond; his father...

Ronald Sullivan Jr.
Mar 7, 2009
Ronald Lewis "Peanut" Sullivan Jr., 39, of Colonial Heights, passed away on Saturday, March 7, 2009 at his residence. He formerly worked for Westvaco Corp. (known as Short Bus). He is survived by his son, Daniel P. Vance of Richmond; his mother, Nancy Sullivan Potter and husband, Marion of Dinwiddie; his father, Ronald L. Sullivan Sr. and wife, Judy of...

Frank Szewczyk
Mar 6, 2009
Frank Joseph Szewczyk, 91, of Colonial Heights, died Friday, March 6, 2009 at Southside Regional Medical Center, Petersburg. He was born in Boswell, Pennsylvania, and was the son of the late, Joseph and Tekla Szewczyk. He was a retired U.S. Army Veteran and retired from Allied Chemical Co. Mr. Szewczyk was a member of St. Ann Catholic Church in Colonial...

Vera Poole
Feb 27, 2009
Vera G. "Polly" Poole 84, of Colonial Heights, formerly of Petersburg, died Friday February 27, 2009 at Southside Regional Medical Center. She was the daughter of the late Henry Fain and Essie Lena English Grubbs. Vera was preceded in death by her husband Emmett L. Poole, a daughter Delores P. Wood, a grandson Trey Felts and two sisters Madeline Andrews,...

James Nester Jr.
Feb 27, 2009
James O. Nester Jr., 80, of Prince George, passed away on Friday, February 27, 2009. He was preceded in death by his wife; Mary D. Nester and his mother and father, James O. Nester Sr. and Mabel Nester Hackler. He was a member of First United Methodist Church of Hopewell, and attended Crowder Memorial Baptist Church. He is survived by...

Roslyn Dhanoolal
Feb 27, 2009
Roslyn F. Dhanoolal of Chesterfield, died Friday February 27, 2009 at her residence. Funeral services will be annouced by the Colonial Heights Chapel of E. Alvin Small Funeral Home and Crematory 2033 Boulevard 23834.
Marie Scott
Feb 27, 2009
Marie J. Scott 63, of Dewitt died Friday February 27, 2009 at her residence. She was preceded in death by her father Joseph Daniel Jessup. Mrs. Scott was a retired secretary for Central State. She is survived by her husband James Scott, her daughter Stephanie Brunow and husband Dennis of Alabama, son Glen T. Wells Jr., of Church Road, her...

Lucy Roberts
Feb 27, 2009
Lucy "Lou" M. Roberts, 93, of Colonial Heights, passed away on Friday, February 27, 2009 at Colonial Heights Health Care Center. She was the daughter of the late James and Mallie Austin Murray, and was preceded in death by her husband, Joe A. Roberts. She is survived by her daughter, Lorene Brown and husband, Grady of Colonial Heights; a granddaughter,...
Gloria Stone
Feb 24, 2009
Gloria Harvell Lewis Stone 82, of Chesterfield, died Tuesday February 24, 2009 at Chippenham Medical Center. She was the daughter of the late Earl C. and Grace Jones Harvell. Gloria was a member of Second Branch Baptist Church. She is survived by her husband William F. Stone, daughter Bonnie Lewis Culbreath and husband Vaughan of Ford, stepson Ken O. Stone...

David Jerrell
Feb 23, 2009
David T. Jerrell, 64, of Dinwiddie County, passed away on Monday, February 23, 2009 at his residence. He was the son of the late Robert S. Jerrell Jr. and Ann Gorsline Jerrell. He was a retired veteran with the United States Navy. He was a member of Dinwiddie Baptist Church. Mr. Jerrell retired from IBM with over 25 years of...

Ruth Hale
Feb 23, 2009
Ruth D. Hale, 89, of Dinwiddie, passed away on Monday, February 23, 2009 at Southside Regional Medical Center. She was the daughter of the late George E. and Mamie Wyatt Dewsbury, and the widow of Thomas C. Hale. She was preceded in death by two sisters, Alice Brockwell, and Evelyn Boisseau Rott, and a brother, Merle Dewsbury. She was a...

Dennis Burnette Sr.
Feb 22, 2009
Dennis Earl Burnette Sr., 52, of Dinwiddie, passed away on Sunday, February 22, 2009 at MCV Medical Center. He was the son of the late Jimmy R. Burnette and Ruth Burnette Lewis. Mr. Burnette was a machinist for Philip Morris Tobacco Company. He is survived by his son, Dennis E. Burnette Jr. of Dinwiddie; a granddaughter, Nevaeh Burnette; sisters and...
Herta Shepherd
Feb 22, 2009
Mrs. Herta Paula Shepherd, 71, of Colonial Heights, departed this life on February 22, 2009. She was born in Stuttgart, Germany on April 5, 1937, and came to the United States on February 14, 1955. Paula is survived by her loving and devoted husband of 54 years, Ret. Sergeant Major Earl F. Shepherd; children, Karen L. Efird and husband, Fred...

Dorothy Phillippi
Feb 21, 2009
Dorothy C. Phillippi, 84, of Chester, went to be with the Lord on Saturday, February 21, 2009. She was the daughter of the late William and Sarah Byrd Clemmons; and was preceded in death by her husband, James Earl Phillippi, and a daughter, Shirlee McFadden. She is survived by two daughters, Doris Gilbert of Chester, and Velva A. Giddings of...

Margie Duncan
Feb 19, 2009
Margie Loveline Duncan, daughter of the late Robert and Bessie King of Austinsville, Va., went to meet the lord on February 19, 2009. She is survived by her husband, James E. Duncan, owner of Christian sound in Richmond; son, Jamie and wife Loria; grandson, Zackary, all of Chester. Mrs. Duncan is also survived by two brothers, Joe and Bobby King...

Gertrude Skinner
Feb 18, 2009
Gertrude T. Skinner, 88, of Petersburg, died Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at Southside Regional Medical Center. She was the daughter of the late Ernest Coleman and Mollie Brooks Tyus, and was the widow of Edward Louis Skinner. Survivors include her daughter, Barbara A. Skinner of Colonial Heights; brother, Raymond D Tyus of Richmond; son-in-law, Morris T. Horne of Prince George;...

Mary Gunter
Feb 17, 2009
Mary Elizabeth Ohland Gunter, 88, of Dinwiddie, died Tuesday, February 17, 2009 at Southside Regional Medical Center. She was the daughter of the late William and Elizabeth Ebbitt, and was the widow of her first husband, John Ohland and second husband, Benjamin Gunter, also predeceased by her grandson, John Lamm. Survivors include her devoted daughter, Margo Ellen Lamm and husband,...

Margaret Harrison
Feb 16, 2009
Margaret A. Harrison, 59 of Dinwiddie, passed away on Monday February 16, 2009 at Southside Regional Medical Center. She was the daughter of the late William S. and Marie Arnold Harrison. Ms. Harrison was employed with the Virginia Department of Taxation. She is survived by her sister, Linda H. Bishop and husband Terry of Ohio; brother, Joseph W Harrison of...
Otis Martin
Feb 16, 2009
MARTIN, Otis Carlton, 77, of Chester, died on Monday, February 16, 2009. He was the second of four sons to the late Emmett and Mabel Martin, and was preceded in death by his son, Perry Martin, and grandson, Joseph Martin. He is survived by his wife of 57 years, Marian Vineyard Martin; his children and their spouses, Wayne and Renée...

Michael Sheets
Feb 15, 2009
Michael Vincent Sheets 30, of Midlothian, died Sunday February 15, 2009 at the Medical College of Virginia. He is survived by his mother Nancy E. Birkhead of Colonial Heights, father David E. Sheets Sr., of Mechanicsville, a brother David E. Sheets Jr., of Midlothian, maternal grandparents Walter and Virginia Beavans, several aunts, uncles, cousins and many loving friends. There will...
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