Edward Keith Boosembark lost his long battle with prostate cancer on Jan. 15, 2009, with his wife by his side. Ed was born June 28, 1952, in Waco, Texas, the son of Kathleen and Franklin Boosembark. Ed’s father was in the military, so he lived various places growing up. He graduated from Lompoc High School [...]
Dr. Thomas Voshell Jr., 93, of the 1400 block of Dunstan Circle, died Jan. 21, 2009, in Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital. He was born in Philadelphia to the late Thomas Hamersley Voshell and Helen Luce Voshell July 13, 1915. He graduated from Upper Darby High School in Philadelphia in 1933. He was married Oct. [...]
William Dewey (Bill) Mason Jr., 84, of Roanoke, Virginia, died on Monday, January 19, 2009. He was preceded in death by his wife of 60 years, Anne Segars Mason; and his parents, William Dewey Mason and Mary Guthrie Mason. He is survived by his daughter, Patricia Anne Mason Huff, of Roanoke, Va.; a son, William [...]
George Herman Fischer Jr., 86, of 3251 Timberline Drive, Orangeburg, died Saturday, Jan. 17, 2009, at his residence. Funeral service will be held 11 a.m. Wednesday, Jan. 21, at Orangeburg Lutheran Church, with Pastor Garry W. White officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery. Mr. Fischer was born in Orangeburg, a son of the [...]
Edward R. Crilly, 88, of Fairfax, Va., died Friday, Jan. 23, 2009. He was born in Elizabeth, N.J., son of the late John J. Crilly and Helen O’Brien. A 1944 graduate of the Citadel in Charleston, S.C., he was a veteran of World War II and the Korean Conflict, serving as a lieutenant in the [...]
Judy Kay Reno Driscoll, 64, died suddenly at her home on January 20, 2009. Friends may call at PARKS FUNERAL HOME Monday evening, January 26, 2009 from six until eight o’clock. Graveside funeral services will be held at Arlington National Cemetery, Thursday morning, February 12, 2009 at ten o’clock. In lieu of flowers memorials may [...]
James Thorpe, former director of the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens who helped raise the public profile of the institution, turning it into one of Southern California’s leading educational and cultural centers, has died. He was 93. Thorpe, a scholar of English literature and former Princeton University professor, died Jan. 4 at his [...]
LTC Benjamin F. Cox, USA, Ret., of Seoul, South Korea, died Jan. 14, 2009. Born as the youngest of 3 siblings, 2 sisters and a brother in Frankfurt Germany, Ben grew up mostly in Reidsville, North Carolina and graduated from Reidsville Senior High School in 1978. He was a graduate of the Citadel, a distinguished [...]
John Wood Bateman, 66, died Monday, January 19, 2009, in Tidelands Community Hospice House. Mr. Bateman was born in Springhill, La., September 11, 1942, a son of the late James William Bateman, Jr. and Percy Suttle Bateman. He was a graduate of Louisiana Tech, The Citadel, and the University of South Carolina and earned master’s [...]
Charles F. Kreischer, 86, of Augusta, Ga., Atlanta, Ga. and formerly of Dalton, Ga., passed away Tuesday, January 13, 2009 at Eisenhower Army Medical Center in Augusta. He was preceded in death by his first wife, Jane Taylor Poulnot Kreischer and son, Charles Francis Kreischer. He was a longtime member of the First Presbyterian Church [...]
