Obituaries
Marie Hudson Couch
May 29, 2017
Mrs. Marie Hudson Couch of Halifax, VA passed away Monday, May 29, 2017 at her home. She was born October 20, 1923 in Halifax County, VA and was 93 years old. She was the daughter of the late Charlie Jasper Hudson and the late Jewel Cole Hudson and was married to the late Horace Bentley Couch. She was a...
Eldridge Marshall Hazelwood
May 24, 2017
Eldridge Marshall Hazelwood of Scottsburg, VA passed away May 24, 2017. He was born in Halifax County, VA on April 30, 1947 and was 70 years of age. He was the son of the late Willie Lee Hazelwood, Jr and the late Annie King Hazelwood. He attended Clover Church of God of Prophesy. Eldridge Marshall Hazelwood is...
Richard Eugene Williams
May 17, 2017
Richard Eugene Williams of South Boston, VA passed away May 17, 2017. He was born in Person County, NC on May 8, 1949 and was 68 years of age. He was the son of the late Richard Williams and the late Vannie Daniel Williams. He was married to Myrtle Mae Martin Williams who survives. He was a member of...
Lewis Henry Martin
May 17, 2017
Lewis Henry Martin of Halifax, VA passed away May 17, 2017. He was born in Halifax County on September 26, 1928 and was 88 years of age. He was the son of the late John Clem Martin and the late Louise Powell Martin. He was married Florence Kell Martin, who survives. He was a member of New Hope United...
Dudley B. Barksdale
May 16, 2017
Mr. Dudley B. Barksdale of South Boston, VA passed away Tuesday, May 16, 2017 at the Sentara Woodview. He was born August 16, 1934 in Halifax County, VA and was 83 years old. He was the son of the late Charlie B. Barksdale and the late Susie Moore Barksdale. He was of the Baptist faith and a retired tobacco...
Edward Hobson Meeler
May 14, 2017
Edward Hobson “Hop” Meeler, Sr., 96, of South Boston, passed away Sunday, May 14, 2017, at the Crossings at Bon Air in Richmond. He was the son of Edward Louis and Mary Emma Hobson Meeler. Besides his parents he was predeceased by his wife who was the love of his life for 68 years, Dorothy King Meeler; daughter-in-law, Genny Bass Meeler;...
Elizabeth Tune Jennings
May 13, 2017
Mrs. Elizabeth Tune Jennings of South Boston, VA passed away on Saturday, May 13, 2017 at Berry Hill Health and Rehab Center. She was born in Halifax County, VA on July 28, 1937 and was 79 years old. She was the daughter of the late Giles Adams Tune and Marie Glass Tune and was married to Charles Emmett Jennings who...
Earl Thomas Martin, Sr.
May 13, 2017
Mr. Earl Thomas Martin, Sr. of Nathalie, VA passed away Saturday, May 13, 2017 at the Sentara Woodview Nursing Home. He was born April 26, 1920 in Halifax County, VA and was 97 years old. He was the son of the late Henry Spencer Martin and the late Sally Ambrose Martin and was married to Lelia Arthur “Peggy” Martin for...
Walter Robertson Coates
May 11, 2017
Mr. Walter Robertson Coates of Nathalie, VA passed away Thursday, May 11, 2017 at his home. He was born September 7, 1968 in Halifax County, VA and was 48 years old. He was the son of the late Ronald Carter Coates and the late Faye Martin Coates and was married to Beth Reese Coates, who survives. He was the...
James Michael Perkins
May 10, 2017
Mr. James Michael Perkins of South Boston, VA passed away on Wednesday, May 10, 2017 at Sentara Halifax Regional Hospital. He was born in Halifax County on April 16, 1982 and was 35 years old. He was the son of James Wesley Perkins and Berniece Crews Perkins. He was a member of Gravel Hill Baptist Church, Piney Creek Hunting Club,...
Douglas Milton Worsham
May 9, 2017
Douglas Milton Worsham of Columbia, SC formerly of Halifax, VA passed away May 9, 2017. He was born in Halifax County, VA on July 9, 1942 and was 74 years of age. He was the son of the late Milton Lafayette Worsham and Elsie Doss Worsham who survives. He was married to the late Nancy Lotz Worsham. He was...
Edith Tuck Palmer
May 8, 2017
Edith Tuck Palmer of Nathalie, VA passed away May 8, 2017. She was born in Halifax County, VA on April 11, 1935 and was 82 years of age. She was the daughter of the late Louis Alexander “Alex” Tuck and the late Irvie Fisher Tuck. She was married to the late Breinard “BJ” Palmer. She was a member of...
Agnes Yates
May 5, 2017
Agnes Millar Yates of South Boston, VA passed away May 5, 2017. She was born in Glasgow, Scotland on November 7, 1920 and was 96 years of age. She was the daughter of the late David Millar and the late Lillian Wallis Millar. She was married to the late William C. Yates. Agnes Millar Yates is survived by: One...
Darryl King Watts
May 1, 2017
Darryl King Watts of Scottsburg, VA passed away May 1, 2017. He was born in Halifax County, VA on September 13, 1958 and was 58 years of age. He was the son of the late Joe Wilson Watts, Jr. and Shirley Walden Watts who survives. He was a veteran of the United States Navy, a member of Scottsburg Baptist...
Josephine Anderson Guill
Apr 29, 2017
Mrs. Josephine Anderson Guill of Scottsburg, VA passed away Saturday, April 29, 2017 at the Berry Hill Nursing Home. She was born in Halifax County, VA on March 31, 1933 and was 84 years old. She was the daughter of the late Robert Lee Anderson and the late Bessie Wright Anderson. She was a member of the Buffalo Baptist...
Clayton Vernon Jarmon
Apr 29, 2017
Mr. Clayton Vernon Jarmon of South Boston, VA passed away Saturday, April 29, 2017 at the Seasons of the Woodview. He was born in Duplin County, NC on November 26, 1932 and was 84 years old. He was the son of the late Thomas Clayton Jarmon and the late Sara Quessie Bostic Jarmon and was married to Lila Jernigan Jarmon,...
Odell Esther Crews Skelton
Apr 29, 2017
Odell Esther Crews Skelton passed away Saturday, April 29, 2017. She was born in Halifax County, VA, August 22, 1922 and was 94 years old. She was the daughter of the late Frank Joseph Crews and Cora Belle Lacks Crews. She was married to the late Paul Jackson Skelton. She was a member of Ellis Creek Baptist Church where she...
Mary Wilkerson
Apr 25, 2017
Mary Chisholm Wilkerson of Scottsburg, VA passed away April 25, 2017. She was born in Halifax County on October 30, 1928 and was 88 years of age. She was the daughter of the late William Chisholm and the late Mattie Cliborne Chisholm. She was married to the late Ira Robey Wilkerson for 62 years. She was a member of...
Francis Brodnax Robertson
Apr 22, 2017
Francis Brodnax Robertson, III, a lifelong resident of Halifax, died peacefully on April 22, 2017 at the Sentara Woodview Nursing Home. Born June 23, 1932, he was the son of the late Francis Brodnax Robertson, Jr. and Mary Coles Hankins Robertson of Halifax, VA. He is survived by a daughter, Elizabeth Robertson Wetmore and her husband Kevin of Ashburn, VA...
Susan Melissa Fraser
Apr 20, 2017
Susan Melissa Charles Fraser was born August 7, 1941 in Jacksonville, Florida. She was a graduate of the University of Florida and spent her early career as a recreation director in Washington, D.C., and then Miami, Florida, where Susan and Ed returned to be near Susan’s family. Susan also taught as an elementary school teacher in Miami before becoming a...
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