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Jose Arredondo

Jose Arredondo

Aug 14, 2009

Jose Garcia Arredondo, 55, of Leesburg, VA passed away on August 14, 2009. He was a valued employer of Prince William Hospital where he worked at a Sterilization Processor. Jose was known to all as a very loving, giving person who loved helping people. A man with a happy personality, he had many friends. Jose was born in Mexico to...

Carter Patrick Ridge Delaney

Carter Patrick Ridge Delaney

Aug 10, 2009

Carter Patrick Ridge Delaney passed away at his residence in Leesburg,Virginia on Monday, August 10,2009. Carter moved to Leesburg from Alexandria, VA in 1996 and attended Leesburg Elementary School, Harper Park Middle School and Heritage High School. He was involved in volunteering with the Special Olympics Basketball programs. Carter is survived by his parents Shelley Lester Delaney and Thomas Morgan...

J. Robert Prosise

J. Robert Prosise

Aug 7, 2009

J. Robert Prosise, 56, Of Lucketts, Virginia Died August 7, 2009 of Cardiac arrest. He was the owner of Sherwood Construction Company, Inc. Born in Karlsruhe, Germany and rasied in Northern Virginia, he leaves his beloved wife of 30 years, Joanne Lawton, son Joseph Prosise, bothers John F. Prosise and Lee Swegle, along with many relatives, and friends and associates....

Arthur Peacock

Arthur Peacock

Aug 4, 2009

Arthur Hildt Peacock, age 85, of Leesburg died August 4, 2009 at home. He had cancer. He built and operated an Amoco Service Station at Routes 9 and 662 for 10 years. He returned to Southern States Petroleum Service in Leesburg where he had previously been employed and retired after 30 years of combined service. He was a life long...

Louis Hough

Louis Hough

Jul 27, 2009

Well known face of Safeway passes away. Louis T. Hough passed away on July 27, 2009 at Envoy Health & Rehabilitation and Nursing in Winchester, Virginia. At the time of his death, Mr. Hough was 88 years old. Born in Virginia on April 30, 1921, he was the son of Raymond and Louise (Legge) Hough. He attended Leesburg schools and...

John Carneal

John Carneal

Jul 19, 2009

John Dudley Carneal, Sr. age 78 of Indigo Creek, formerly of Leesburg, VA died Sunday, July 19, 2009 at Waccamaw Community Hospital. Born in Leesburg, VA, he was a son of the late Garland and Anna Carneal. He was a U.S. Navy Veteran of the Korean War where he served on the USS Newport News and the USS Wisconsin. Mr....

Peggy Graham

Peggy Graham

Jul 12, 2009

Peggy Simpson Graham, after a courageous battle with cancer, passed away peacefully at home in Hamilton on July 12, 2009. Peggy was born in Lucketts to the late J. Blakely and Eva (Athey) Simpson. Peggy graduated from Leesburg High School and worked as a legal secretary for over 40 years. During retirement, Peggy worked part-time at the Rust Library in...

Martha Harbison

Martha Harbison

Jul 11, 2009

Martha Staley Harbison, 95, avid bridge player and Lady Vols supporter graduated to Heaven July 11, 2009. A native of Knoxville, TN, she spent the winters in Leesburg with her son-in-law and daughter Bill and Janice Webb from 1985-2003. She moved to Leesburg in 2005 and became an active member of the Goose Creek Bridge Club. A graduate of the...

James Shevis

James Shevis

Jul 10, 2009

James M. Shevis passed away on July 10, 2009 at Heritage Hall in Leesburg, Virginia. Mr. Shevis was 79 years old. He was previously residing in Herndon, Virginia. Born on October 2, 1929 in Vermont, he was the son of James Allen and Frances (Ritchie) Shevis. Mr. Shevis served his country in the United States Air Force. He was a...

John Baldwin

John Baldwin

Jul 1, 2009

John Gray Baldwin, Jr., passed away July 1, 2009 at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Leonard Pomata of Aldie. John was born November 11, 1915 in Montclair, NJ. He worked for 30 plus years at Aircraft Radio Corp, later Sesna, in Boonton Twp. NJ where he and his "bride" Edith Loudin raised two sons and a daughter. He retired...

Constance Herrera

Constance Herrera

Jun 30, 2009

On Tuesday, June 30, 2009 a light went out. Constance E. "Connie" Herrera passed away while residing at Sunrise Assisted Living of Leesburg, Virginia. She was 72 years old at the time of her death. Connie was born in Lancashire, England on October 3, 1936 to proud parents George and Muriel (Coward) Elliott. While living there she met her future...

Grace Blaisdell

Grace Blaisdell

Jun 29, 2009

Grace S. Blaisdell, 95, a three-year resident of Leesburg and longtime resident of Charlottesville, died of failure to thrive June 29 at Morningside House in Leesburg. Mrs. Blaisdell was born in Bangor, Maine, September 20, 1913, to the late Richard S. and Agnes Horne Stevens. With her engineer husband she lived in numerous places in Maine, in Bolivia, and Asheville,...

Beth Ann Coefield

Beth Ann Coefield

Jun 28, 2009

A special person, Beth Ann Coefield, passed away on June 28, 2009. She made her home in Ashburn, Virginia. Beth Ann was 40 years old. She was born in New York to Lorraine Fox and the late Ira Silverman on November 19, 1968. Beth Ann touched the lives of many while working as an office manager for the Capitol Home...

Jane Meintel

Jane Meintel

Jun 20, 2009

Dedicated employee, Jane Lois Meintel, of Leesburg, Virginia passed away on June 20, 2009 while at Loudoun Nursing & Rehabilitation. Mrs. Meintel was employed as a chief operator with the C&P Telephone Company of West Virginia for 37 years. She was an active member in the Telephone Pioneers. Mrs. Meintel was born in Ohio on January 10, 1925 to deceased...

Roy Flippo

Roy Flippo

Jun 20, 2009

Roy Monroe Flippo, Jr. died of natural causes on Saturday, June 20, 2009 in his home in Tucson, Arizona. A native of Leesburg, Virginia, Roy had recently moved to Tucson to spend his retirement. Roy was born on March 15, 1939 in Leesburg, Virginia, and attended the Greenbrier Military School in Lewisburg, West Virginia. He enlisted in the Army in...

Paul Durkin

Paul Durkin

Jun 18, 2009

Paul Durkin, born October 8, 1931 in Pittsburgh PA to Josephine Pauley and Harry Durkin died peacefully at his home in Leesburg on June 18, 2009. Paul attended St. Fidelis Seminary and St Vincent College. He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Pittsburgh in June 1957. After serving seven years of parish assignments for the Diocese, Paul volunteered...

Ellen White

Ellen White

Jun 17, 2009

Local artist, Ellen Jane White, of Leesburg, Virginia passed away on June 17, 2009 at Loudoun Hospital Center. She was 81 years old. Ellen was born May 12, 1928 in New York to the late John P. and Carolyn (Weber) White. While reading her mother's (Carolyn) journal, the family learned her first word was "Da Da". She previously lived in...

Helen Jackson

Helen Jackson

Jun 14, 2009

Lifelong resident of Loudoun County, Helen Jackson, passed away on June 14, 2009 while at INOVA Loudoun Hospital Center. She was a loyal and dedicated employee of Town & County clothing store in Leesburg, Virginia; selling ladies apparel for more than 20 years. Mrs. Jackson was born in Purcellville, Virginia on July 6, 1921 to the late Thomas Cecil Wynkoop...

Mildred Hoskinson

Mildred Hoskinson

Jun 13, 2009

Mildred L. Hoskinson, born February 8, 1911 in Herndon, Virginia passed away on June 13, 2009. She was the youngest child of the late blacksmith Joseph E. and homemaker Florence A (Myers) Moffett. In 1919 the family moved to Ashburn, Virginia where she lived until 1937 when she married the late C. Lee Hoskinson. In 1938 Barcroft in Arlington, Virginia...

Thomas Keefer

Thomas Keefer

Jun 10, 2009

Thomas N. Keefer (Tom), passed away June 10, 2009 in Sterling, Virginia not far from his home in Lucketts, where he and his wife Sally Leroux Keefer have resided since 1986. He was born in 1944 in Colorado where he was adopted as an infant by the late Nelson E. and Rachael Quinn Keefer. He spent most of his life...

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