Linda Lou Brenner
A memorial service will be held at 6:00 PM ob Wednesday, March 27, 2019 in Amory Funeral Home Chapel. Memorial may be made to the SPCA.
Scheduled Funerals
Billie Ricks Simonds
Funeral services will be conducted on Thursday, March 21, 2019, at 2:00 pm from Akins Funeral Home of Copperhill. Chaplain Jan Moberg will officiate. Interment will follow in the Crestlawn Cemetery.
William Lawrence Grantham
Service may be private
Jerry L. Bell
A celebration of life for family and friends will be held at Saint Mary’s Falls when weather permits.
“I may not change the world but I’m gonna leave a scar…”
Jerry has left a scar on the hearts of all who were fortunate to know and love him. Arrangements are by Amory Funeral Home, Grafton, Va.
Juliana Francesca Jaynes
A memorial service will be planned at a future date.
Memorial donations can be made in honor of Juliana to the Western Tidewater Community Services Board https://www.wtcsb.org/
There is a donate button located on the top corner of the website and please direct your donation to WTCSB Jays Place Group Home.
Richard Kent Flythe
A celebration of life service will be held at 11:00 AM on Saturday, March 23, 2019 at Coastal Community Church, 101 Village Ave. Yorktown, VA. Burial will follow in Parklawn Memorial Park, Hampton.
Emilee Doub Mason
Funeral service will be held at 11:00 am on Friday, March 15, 2019 at Zion United Methodist Church, Seaford, Virginia . Interment will follow at 2:00 pm at the Albert G. Horton, Jr. Memorial Veterans Cemetery in Suffolk, Virginia. In lieu of flowers, please make a donation to a charity that Emilee would appreciate. Arrangements by Amory Funeral Home, Grafton.
Ogeni Medanat Atallah
A graveside service will be held on Friday, March 22, 2019 at 2:00 PM in Rosewell Memorial Gardens, 3608 Providence Road, Hayes, Virginia.
Final Arrangements are coordinated by Amory Funeral Home at 410 Grafton Drive, Grafton, Virginia, 23692.
Billy Ray Shelton
His homegoing celebration will be held on Monday, March 11, 2019 at 1:00 PM in Grace Fellowship Church, 609 Aberdeen Rd, Hampton, Va 23661. The family will receive friends 1 hour prior to the service. Interment will be in Parklawn Memorial Park,Arrangements are being handled by Amory Funeral Home, Grafton.
Funeral Home
Nancy Essick Head
A Memorial Service will be held March 30, 2019 at 11:00 am at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, 118 Old York-Hampton Highway, Yorktown. Pastor Joel Neubauer will preside. Following the service, there will be a light lunch and visitation at the church.
Jean Ann Gross
A funeral service will be held 3:00pm Thursday, March 7, 2019 at Brown-Wynne Funeral Home, 200 SE Maynard Rd, Cary, NC 27511. The family will receive friends at the funeral home prior to the service from 2:00-3:00pm. A graveside service will be held 12:00 noon Friday, March 8, 2019 at Albert G. Horton Jr. Memorial Veterans Cemetery, 5310 Milners Road, Suffolk, VA 23434.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association.
Michael Louis Steinmiller
Service will be private. Arrangements by Amory Funeral Home, Grafton, VA.
Michael Louis Steinmiller
Service will be private. Arrangements by Amory Funeral Home, Grafton, VA.
David Arden McCurdy
Yorktown, Va. – David Arden McCurdy, 64, passed away on Thursday, February 28, 2019. Service are pending. Arrangements by Amory Funeral Home, Grafton, VA.
Pansy M. Haagsma
A celebration of Pansy’s life will be held at 11:00am on Monday, March 4, 2019 at Chestnut Level Presbyterian Church, 1068 Chestnut Level Road, Quarryville, PA. 17566, where family and friends may visit beginning at 10:00am. Burial to follow at the adjacent cemetery. To send online condolences, please visit www.rtfoard.com.
Jane White Collins
The family will receive friends on Sunday, March 3, 2019 from 4:00 to 6:0 PM in Amory Funeral Home. A funeral service will be held on Monday, March 4, 2019 at 2:00 PM in Kirkwood Presbyterian Church. Interment will follow in Peninsula Memorial Park.
Memorials may be made to the Lab Rescue LRCP P.O. Box 1814, Annandale, Va. 22003, National Wildlife Federation, 1 Stationery, Place, Rexburg, ID. 83441-5000 or the Jimmy V Foundation, 14600 Weston Parkway, Cary, NC. 27513.
Robert “Bo” Scot Russell
Memorial service will be held at 11:00 AM on Saturday, March 2, 2019 in Amory Funeral Home Chapel with Monsignor Jack Campbell, officiating. The family will receive friends following the service from 1:00 to 6:00 at TJ’s Sports Tavern, 7015 Huntington Ave., Newport News, VA 23607.
In lieu of flowers memorial will be made to the American Cancer Society.
Paul Wilburn Allred, Jr.
A memorial service will be held on Saturday, March 2 at the Amory Funeral Home Chapel in Yorktown, VA. at 2PM. The family will receive guests from 1-2 at the funeral home. Burial will be private service in Lillington, NC at a later date.
We would like to express our gratitude for the medical staff and team at Riverside Regional Medical Center for their compassionate care.
Dale K. “Honker” Williams
A service for Dale will be held at 2:00pm on Thursday, February 28 at Amory Funeral Home, Grafton. The family will receive friends at 1pm before the service and other times at the residence of 1108 Dandy Loop Rd. A graveside service will immediately follow at Peninsula Memorial Park.
Yvonne Rosella Craw
A Mass of Christian Burial will be held at 11:00 AM on Tuesday, February 26, 2019 in St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church. A Memorial
Service will be held at 11:00 AM on Friday, February 28, 2019 at Wass Funeral Home in Centerville, SD, followed by internment in Riverview Cemetery. Memorials may be made to the Peninsula SPCA, 523 J.C. Morris Blvd, Newport News, VA 23601. Arrangements by Amory Funeral Home, Grafton, Va.
Talmadge B. Forrest, Jr.
The family will receive friends on Tuesday, February 26th from 7:00 to 8:30 at Amory Funeral Home, 410 Grafton Dr., Yorktown VA 23692. A funeral service will be held on Wednesday, February 27th at Amory Funeral Home at 11:00 followed by interment at Parklawn Memorial Park.
In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to Mesothelioma Applied Research Foundation,1615 L. Street NW, Suite 430, Washington DC 20036
Col William C. Carey
The family will receive friends on Saturday, February 23, 2019 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM in Amory Funeral Home Chapel. A memorials service will be held in April on Saturday April 6, 2019 at 1:00 PM in Amory Funeral Home Chapel.
Margie M. Melo
Visitation will be at Amory Funeral Home, Grafton Thursday February 21st from 5:00 PM – 7:00 PM. There will be a funeral mass held at St Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Yorktown VA on Friday February 22nd at 11:00 AM followed by burial at Peninsula Memorial Park, Newport News, VA. In lieu of flowers, please make donations to your favorite charity in memory of Margie Melo.
James Paul Harcum
The family will receive friends on Thursday, February 21, 2019 from 7:00 to 8:30 PM in Amory Funeral Home. A memorial service will be held at 4:00 PM on Friday, February 22, 2019 in St. Mark Lutheran Church a reception will follow in the church. Jim will be buried in Milwaukee Cemetery, Milwaukee, Northampton Co., NC at a later date.
Sue Blanks Weilmuenster
A memorial service will be held at 11:00 AM on Saturday, February 23, 2019, at the Crooks Memorial United Methodist Church followed by a reception at the Edgehill Community Clubhouse, 700 Cockletown Rd, Yorktown. In lieu of flowers, please send donations to Crooks Memorial United Methodist Church, 204 Cook Rd., Yorktown, VA 23690.
Dora Jean Doyon
A memorial service will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, February 16, 2019 at Amory Funeral Home in Yorktown, VA with a family reception to follow. DJ will be laid to rest with her husband in Arlington National Cemetery at a later date.
In lieu of flowers the family would appreciate donations be made to Remember the Children (www.remember-the-children.org).
Charles Richard Hill
A memorial service will be held at 3:00 PM in Zion United Methodist Church on Saturday, February 16, 2019. A graveside service with Military Honors will be held at 10:00 AM on Friday, February 15, 2019 in Albert G. Horton, Jr. Veterans Memorial Cemetery.
Memorials may be made to the Yorktown Masonic Lodge 205, DAV Yorktown Chapter 13 or Zion United Methodist Church Cemetery Fund.
Catherine W. Hopkins
A Celebration of Life will be held at St. Joan of Arc Catholic Church, Yorktown, VA on Friday, February 15, 2019 at 11:00 AM The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. Burial will follow in Greenlawn Memorial Park at 1:30 PM. In lieu of flowers donations may be made to St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Roanoke Rapids, NC, St Joan of Arc Catholic Church in Yorktown, VA, or a charity of your choice.
Kathleen (Kathy) Page Dye
A funeral service will be held at 4:00 PM on Saturday, February 9, 2019. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service. A graveside service will be held on Monday, February 11, 2019 in Crawfordsville Baptist Church Cemetery in Crawfordville, Ga. Local arrangements are by Amory Funeral Home, Grafton, Va.
William E. Andrews
A memorial service with military honors will be held at 1:00 PM on Saturday, February 9, 2019 in Amory Funeral Home Chapel. The family would like memorials to be sent to the Wounded Warrior Project, P.O. Box 758517, Topeka, Kansas 66675-8517
Shirley Ann Hovanic-Wilburn
A funeral mass will be celebrated at 12:15 p.m. on Friday, February 8, 2019 at Church of the Incarnation, Charlottesville, Va. Burial will be at a later date in Arlington National Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to Hospice of the Piedmont at www.hopva.org or Food for the Poor at foodforthepoor.org.
Condolences may be given to the family at www.hillandwood.com.
Margaret Elouise Johnson
A Funeral service will be held on Monday, February 4, 2019 at 2:00pm in the chapel of Amory Funeral Home, Grafton. The family will receive friends following the service. Interment will be private.
Keely Rai Windham
A memorial service will be held at 5:00 PM on Saturday, February 2, 2019 in Amory Funeral Home Chapel. The family will receive friends following the service.
Mildred Bowler Ballew
Services will be Saturday, February 2nd at 12:00 PM at Orcutt Baptist Church in Newport News, VA. Visitation will follow the service. Burial will be private. Arrangements by Amory Funeral Home, Grafton, Va.
Shirley Ann Bostancic
A memorial service will be held on Friday, February 1, 2019, at 11am at St Luke’s United Methodist Church, 300 Ella Taylor Road, Yorktown, VA. The family wishes in lieu of flowers expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions to the St. Luke’s food closet.
Gertrude “Trudy” B. Dickenson
A funeral service will be held at 3:00 PM on Friday, February 1, 2019 in Zion United Methodist Church with interment to follow in the Church Cemetery. The family will receive friends beginning at 2:00 PM in the church. To view the obituary go to amoryfuneralhome.com for more information
Mary Ann Lancaster
A funeral service will be held at 1:00 PM on Thursday, January 31, 2019 in Amory Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow in Peninsula Memorial Park. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service.
William Edward White
A celebration of Edward’s life will be held at Providence United Methodist Church in Grafton, VA. The service will be held from 11am to 12pm, on Saturday, February 2, 2019. a lunch will follow. Feel free to wear maroon and/or orange to celebrate Edward’s dedication to Virginia Tech.
Donald Curtis Mathews
Donald Curtis Mathews, 56, passed away on Monday January 21, 2019. A memorial service will be held at NOON on Saturday, February 2, 2019 in Amory Funeral Home Chapel.
Kay Connelly Mayton
A memorial service will be held at 11:00 AM on Monday, January 28, 2019 in Crooks Memorial United Methodist Church. Burial will be at a later date in Zion United Methodist Church Cemetery in Prosperity, South Carolina.
Memorials may be made to Crooks Memorial United Methodist Church, Cemetery Fund at Zion United Methodist Church Prosperity, South Carolina
Robert Lee Snodgrass
A memorial service will be held at 5:00 PM on Saturday, January 26, 2019 in Amory Funeral Home Chapel. To view obituary go to amoryfuneralhome.com.
Memorials may be made to Life Net Health, 1864 Concert Drive, Virginia Beach, Va. 23453.
Kyle “Cajun” Shane Jensen
A celebration service will be held at 2:00 PM on Saturday, January 26, 2019 at York High School Auditorium. The family will receive friends following the service. Arrangements by Amory Funeral Home, Grafton, Va.
Golie Lynwood Ingram, Jr.
A funeral service will be held at 1:30 PM on Saturday, January 26, 2019 in Dandy Baptist Church, Yorktown VA. Interment will follow at Peninsula Memorial Park. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service at Dandy Baptist Church.
The family would like to express their sincere appreciation to the loving care given to Lynwood through his in-home caregivers.
Expressions of sympathy may be made to the Peninsula Rescue Mission at www.prm.info or Dandy Baptist Church, 3407 Goodwin Neck Rd. Yorktown, VA 23692.
Kathleen Rowe Bedford
A celebration of Kathleen’s life will be held at Bethel Baptist Church, 1004 Yorktown Rd, in Yorktown on Friday, January 25, 2019 with Rev. Doug Echols, officiating. The family will receive friends from 12:00-1:00 P.M. Services will begin at 1:00 PM and Interment will follow in Peninsula Memorial Park. Arrangements by Amory Funeral Home, Grafton, VA.
Larry Gene Nobles
Services will be held at Amory Funeral Home in Yorktown VA on Thursday, January 17th at 2pm. Viewing will begin at 1pm.
John Henry Hines
The family will receive visitors on Saturday, January 19, 2019, from 10:00 to 11:30 AM at Amory Funeral Home, Grafton. A graveside service will be held at 2:00 PM on Tuesday, January 22, 2019, at Peninsula Memorial Park.
Hellmut H. Herdey
Funeral arrangements are thru Amory Funeral Home located at 410 Grafton Drive in Grafton. The family will receive visitors at the funeral home from 6pm to 8pm on Friday, January 18th. A funeral service will be conducted by the Reverend Carlton Bakkum at Grace Episcopal Church located at 111 Church St in Yorktown on Saturday, January 19th at 2pm with a graveside service to follow. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Grace Historical Church Preservation Foundation, P.O. Box 133, Yorktown, VA 23690.
Ronald Preston Moore
The family will receive friends on Friday, January 18, 2019 from 7:00 to 8:30 PM in Amory Funeral Home. A funeral service will be held on Saturday, January 19, 2019 at 1:30 PM in Amory Funeral Home Chapel with Reverend Dennis Worsham, officiating. Burial will follow in Peninsula Memorial Park.
Memorial’s may be made to the Parkinson Disease Foundation, Donation Processing, the Michael J. Fox Foundation, P. O. Box 5014 Hagerstown, MD. 21741-5014 ; St. Jude’s Children Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude’s Place, Memphis, TN, 38105 or Toys for Tots.
Gloria Shields
A visitation will be held from 6:00-7:30 pm on Monday, January 14, at Zion United Methodist Church in Seaford. A funeral service will be held at 11:00 am on Tuesday, January 15, at Zion United Methodist Church. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends at a reception in the church social hall following services. The family would ask that memorial donations be made to Zion Methodist Church Building Fund, 2109 Seaford Road, Seaford, VA, 23696 and flowers would be appreciated as well. Arrangements by Amory Funeral Home, Grafton.
Hansford Lee “Hank” Guilliams
A Funeral Service will be held at 11:00 am on Friday, January 11, 2019, in the chapel of Amory Funeral Home, Grafton with Rev. Doug Echols officiating. The family will receive friends one hour prior to the service in the funeral home. Interment will be held at 11:00 am on Saturday, January 12, at Walters Family Cemetery in Callaway, VA.
