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Rolf Achim Mitchel
Dec 25, 2019
A TRIBUTE TO MY FATHER
He was born ROLF ACHIEM MICHELBACHER, September 16, 1924 in Berlin, Germany. He would never have siblings, which may have been a blessing because of what the future would unfold for him and his family. My father is Jewish and during his childhood he and his family were devoted to...
Saroj Gosain
Dec 25, 2019
A service will be on Saturday, December 28, 2019 at 10:30 am at Colonial Funeral Home of Leesburg, 201 Edwards Ferry Rd., NE, Leesburg, VA 20176.
Junior Holmes Williams
Dec 24, 2019
Junior H. Williams March 1, 1926-December 24, 2019 Leesburg Virginia, formerly of Herndon, Virginia Devoted, loving husband to Joyce Williams (nee Fortney) who predeceased him. Survived by children to whom he was a selfless, loving father: sons Jamie and Randy, both of Chantilly, Virginia, and daughter Julie, of Ashburn, Virginia. Son of David and Inez Williams, and brother of...
Sherie S. Grimes
Dec 14, 2019
After a long struggle with Alzheimer's Disease, Sherie-Nan Sherwood Grimes, at 90 years, passed away on December 14, 2019 in Frederick, Maryland. She passed on peacefully in her sleep lovingly surrounded by family.
Sherie was born on November 30, 1929 to Clayton Benjamin Sherwood and Nan McCabe Laycock Sherwood in Washington, DC. After graduating from Bethesda Chevy...
Shirley M. Stills
Dec 11, 2019
Born July 24 th , 1931 in Plainfield, N.J. to Gaylord Knight and Nellie Smith, Shirley Marie Stills passed away unexpectedly on December 11 th , 2019 in Ashburn, VA.
Through the years, Shirley also resided in Florida and Illinois.
A graduate of Keane College, Shirley had also been a...
Mary J. Ward
Dec 11, 2019
In the once hustling, bustling, thriving industrial northeastern city of Niagara Falls, New York, a town known for an astounding assortment of wonders whether worldly or man-made, another force of nature took form before a winter's thaw 1939.
It was on the promising heels of a long-anticipated spring '39 when along came Mary.
Born Mary...
Brooks Nathaniel Mullen
Dec 9, 2019
Kara and Thomas Mullen will receive family and friends on Thursday December 19, 2019 at Cornerstone Chapel 650 Battlefield Pkwy SE, Leesburg, VA 20175 starting at 1:00pm.
John Doyle
Dec 4, 2019
John (Jack) Morgan Doyle of Sterling, Virginia died of natural causes on December 4, 2019 at 97. A long time resident of Loudoun County Jack moved with his family to Leesburg in 1965 and then to Sterling in 1966. He was born in Silver City, New Mexico on March 6, 1922 to Thomas Joseph Doyle of Carrick on Suir,...
Col. Alfred D. Heck, Usmcr Ret.
Dec 2, 2019
Col. Alfred D. Heck USMCR ret., 87, passed away December 2, 2019. He was born in Schenectady, NY, May 12, 1932 to Alfred and Lillian Heck. He grew up most of his life in Washington, D.C. and as a teenager delivered newspapers to the White House as part of his route. He married his childhood sweetheart, Ann Taylor Baldwin,...
Margaret “Peggy” Lowe
Nov 30, 2019
Margaret Ann (Peggy) Lowe, passed away peacefully in her sleep, at home early Saturday morning, November 30, 2019.
She was born April 8, 1930 in Montpellier, VT.
She was raised in the Washington, D.C. suburbs and graduated from Falls Church High school in 1949, where she played softball in the position of pitcher, giving their...
Barbara J. Buckholz
Nov 29, 2019
Barbara Jean Buckholz, age 62, lost her battle with Brain Cancer on 29 November 2019. She was an incredible person full of positive energy and dreams who focused on success and inner peace. Barbara shattered the survival rate for Brain Cancer for 6.5 years. She was born on the 19 th of February 1957 in Baltimore, MD to the...
Elizabeth Glaves Saville
Nov 29, 2019
Elizabeth "Betsy" Glaves Saville (Grand Forks Central High School, North Dakota, Class of 1961) of Leesburg, Virginia, passed away on 29 November 2019. She was born in 1943 in Columbus, Ohio, to Mary Louise Hart, descendant of the first settlers of Maryland & New England. Her adoptive parents, Archie Hubbard Glaves & Ruth Elizabeth Brown, instilled in her...
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