Obituaries
Karen Smith Garrett
Apr 4, 2023
Karen Smith Garrett, age 84, passed away on Tuesday, April 4, 2023 at her home in Smithfield, Virginia. She was born a Christmas baby in Alliance, Ohio on December 25, 1938 and graduated from Newport News High School in 1956. She retired after 44 years of dedicated Civil Service as the Chief Claims Officer at the Judge Advocate General’s...
Anne Margaret Miller
Apr 1, 2023
Anne Margaret Miller, 93, of Windsor, passed away on Saturday, April 1, 2023. She was the daughter of the late Alpino Pugnetti and Elvira Troggio Pugnetti. She was also preceded in death by her husband of 64 years, Hartley George Miller. Mrs. Miller is survived by her sons, Mark Miller (Robin) and Brian Miller (Sharon); granddaughters, Michelle and Susan; six...
Mary Kathleen (Kathy) Kelly
Mar 30, 2023
Mary Kathleen (Kathy) Kelly, 78, of Carrollton, VA passed away unexpectedly on March 30, 2023. Kathy was born in Charleston SC and was the only child of the late Henry and Louise Honeycutt. She was raised in Clinton, NC where she met her loving husband of 61 years, Bernice W. Kelly (BW). She and her husband moved to Newport News...
John Clayton Carter
Mar 30, 2023
John Clayton Carter, 41, of Harrisonburg, VA passed away unexpectedly on Thursday, March 30, 2023. He was the son of William Clayton Carter, III and Johnette Smithwick Carter. He is also survived by his sister, Heather Carter Jordan (Shaun) and their children, Isabella and Baylee; grandfather, John B. Smithwick; and many aunts, uncles and cousins. He was preceded in death...
Linda Kay Harris
Mar 27, 2023
Linda Kay Harris, 65, of Smithfield, VA, passed away on Monday, March 27, 2023. She was the daughter of the late Richard Noel Harris, Sr and Elenor Lois Stine Harris. She is survived by her sister, Anne Harris Garland (Daniel); brother, Richard Noel Harris, Jr (Anne); nieces and nephews, David Noel Garland, Spencer Lee Garland (Annie) and children Lizzie and...
Doris Daughtrey Jones
Mar 26, 2023
Doris Daughtrey Jones, 68, of Smithfield passed away on Sunday, March 26, 2023. She was the daughter of the late James Ralph Daughtrey and Ruby Clarine Ward Daughtrey. She is survived by her daughter, Angela Renee Jones; sons, Douglas Wayne Jones and Mark Allen Jones I (Crystal); grandchildren, Nick, Jordan and Cameron. She was also preceded in death by a...
Robert Cecil Clark
Mar 19, 2023
Robert Cecil Clark, 51, of Hampton, VA passed away March 19, 2023 after a long illness. He was born October 22, 1971 to the late Roger Lee Clark and Joyce Dean Lusk. He leaves behind his loving wife Tiffany Bell Clark and his two beautiful daughters, Erin and Lily. His in-laws, David and Carol Bell; brother-in-law, Jeremy and Robyn Bell...
Regina Burnette Pencola
Mar 10, 2023
Regina Burnette Pencola passed away at her home on March 10th 2023 after months of declining health. She was born in Norfolk, VA on November 29th 1932. She was the daughter of Hettie Byrum Stanley and Henry Clay Burnette.
Regina was a member of Christ Episcopal Church where, in her earlier years, she taught Sunday School, served on the...
Mattie Sue Roach
Mar 8, 2023
Mattie Sue Clark Roach, 98, of Smithfield, passed away on Wednesday, March 8, 2023. She was the daughter of the late Anderson Henry Clark and Annie Jones Clark. She was preceded in death by her husband Joe Otis Roach; son David Lee Miller and daughter Barbara Hargrave. She is survived by her son Glenn R. Miller; stepsons David Roach, Jerry...
Lois Jean Peck Rowell
Mar 5, 2023
Lois Jean Peck Rowell, 73, of Surry, passed away on March 5, 2023. She was born in Surry, Virginia, the daughter of the late Charlie James (Jimmie) and Evelyn Peck. Left to carry her memory are her husband and devoted partner in life of nearly 55 years, Charles R. (Ricky) Rowell and 2 cherished daughters, Tracey Rowell Caudill (Michael) and...
Hutter Gale
Mar 5, 2023
Robert Hutter Gale, 73, of Smithfield passed away on Sunday, March 5, 2023, after a brief illness. He was the son of the late Robert Whitfield Gale and Charlotte Stannard Hutter Gale. Hutter attended Isle of Wight County public schools and the University of Richmond. He was employed at Gale Company and then Smithfield Foods for a number of...
Shirley Jean Vernon
Feb 27, 2023
Shirley Jean Effler Vernon, 85, of Hampton passed away on February 27, 2023. She was born in Old Fort, North Carolina, the daughter of the late James Leroy Effler and Bertha Gertrude Allison Effler. She was also preceded in death by her husband, Fred James Vernon and two nephews, Kenny Effler and Robert Shelton. She is survived by her daughters,...
Victoria Jean Anderson
Feb 25, 2023
Victoria Jean Anderson, 67, of Smithfield passed away on Saturday, February 25, 2023 after a short but brave fight with cancer.
Born in Madison, Wisconsin, Vicki grew up as the daughter of a US Navy Sailor, moving across the country and around the world. She met her beloved husband Gary in 1973 in Charleston, SC. They married in April of...
David Earl Tucker
Feb 23, 2023
David Earl Tucker, 56, of Windsor, passed away on Thursday, February 23, 2023. He was the son of the late Earl Charles Tucker and Clorinda Bell Perrine Tucker. He is survived by his wife of 21 years, Karen Maureen VanHorn Tucker; son, Chace Hunter-Lee Davis; sister, Debbie Taylor (Jim); two nephews, Cody and Kyle Turner; his in laws, Rose Marie...
Ellis Franklin Wills
Feb 18, 2023
Ellis Franklin Wills, 71, of Smithfield passed away on Saturday, February 18, 2023. He was the son of the late Wesley Franklin Wills and Gladys Virginia Lankford Wills. He is survived by his wife of 42 years, Patty Ellen Wetzel Wills; daughters, Lauren Ashley Wills (Pablo Finelli), Caroline Wills Devers (Jakob); Kaitlyn Victoria Wills; granddaughters, Aubrey and Tinley; sister, Connie...
Jeanne Carol Heide Crowe
Feb 17, 2023
Jeanne Carol Heide Crowe, 93, of Smithfield went home on Friday, February 17, 2023. She was the daughter of the late Earl Edward Heide and Winifred Olive O’Dell Heide. She was preceded in death by her husband, Rev. Milton VanBuren Crowe and their daughter, Barbara Lee Campbell. She is survived by her children, Paul Alan Crowe, Elizabeth Jean Crowe, and...
Mark Allen Jones, II
Feb 12, 2023
Mark Allen Jones, II, 27, of Smithfield, VA passed away on Sunday, February 12, 2023. He is the son of Mark Allen Jones, I and Crystal Dawn Jones. He is survived by his parents; his brother, Nicholas Lee Jones; grandparents, Luther Wayne Jones, Doris Daughtrey Jones, Junior Middleton and Ann Middleton; uncles, Douglas Jones and Walter Starr (Keesha); aunts, Angela Jones and Kendra...
Cynthia T. Roach
Feb 3, 2023
Cynthia Jeanette Thomas Roach (affectionately known as “Cindee”) was born on August 11, 1948 to Roy and Bernice Thomas. After a full and beautiful life, she began dancing on streets of gold with her Savior and the ones that had gone before her on the morning of February 3, 2023. Cindee graduated in 1966 from Smithfield High School and went...
Eric Robert Hume
Feb 1, 2023
Eric Robert Hume, 51, of Smithfield, Virginia passed away in a tragic accident on Wednesday, February 1, 2023. He was born in Wooster, Ohio to Robert Lee Hume and Marcia Cameron Hume, and lived most of his life in and near Raleigh, NC. He is survived by his wife Yvette McMurray Hume; her children, Colby Thomas O’Reilly and Nicholas Michael...
Ingrid P. King
Jan 29, 2023
Ingrid P. King, 83, of Smithfield, died on Sunday, January 29 in her home.
Ingrid was born in Berlin, Germany on December 20, 1939. She emigrated to the United States in 1959. Ingrid met her future husband, Lloyd N. King, Jr., in New York City in February 1963 and married him that year in December. In 1971, she moved...
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