Lillie Virginia Corbin 1928-2007

Lillie Virginia Corbin, age 79, of Culpeper, Virginia, passed away Sunday, December 9, 2007 at Oak Springs Nursing Home, Warrenton, Virginia. Lillie was born in Culpeper County, June 9, 1928 to Wesley and Adeline Corbin Corbin. Surviving Lillie are her husband Charles W. Corbin of Culpeper; three sons; Elzie Lee Corbin and his wife Linda of Stanley, Junior Douglas Corbin and his wife Tina of Culpeper, Charles McArthur Corbin of Brightwood; four sisters, Ella Nicholson of Amissville, Betty Tharpe of Ruckersville, Margaret Yowell of Orange, Bessie Nicholson of Orange; one brother Marvin Corbin of Orange; four grandchildren, Gerry Corbin, Sherry Frazier, Jeffrey Corbin, Chase Corbin; step-grandson Brandon Henderson; seven great-grandchildren and two greatgreat-grandchildren. Preceding Lillie in death were her parents; special friend, Ernest Frazier; three sisters, Essie Corbin, Frances Dodson and Louise Corbin and three brothers John Corbin, Everette Corbin and Daniel Corbin. Funeral services will be held on Wednesday, December 12, 2007 at 11:00 a.m. in the Clore-English Funeral Home Chapel, 11190 James Monroe Highway, Culpeper, Virginia 22701 with Pastor Bruce Fincham conducting the service. Interment will follow in Fairview Cemetery, Culpeper, Virginia. The family will receive friends from 7:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Tuesday evening at the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Oak Springs Nursing Home, 614 Hastings Lane, Warrenton, VA 20186. Online condolences may be emailed to the family by visiting clore-english.com. The family has entrusted CloreEnglish Funeral Home with these arrangements.

HENRY PATRICK CRAWFORD 1903-1971

The Greene County Record, Stanardsville, VA, Oct. 17, 1974
Henry Patrick Crawford of Charlottesville died Tuesday, October 8, 1974 in local hospital. He was 71. A retired laborer, he was a member of Shenandoah Heights Baptist Church in Waynesboro. Survivors include five sons, Emory C. Crawford of Richmond, Robert D. Crawford of Tappahannock, Sherman I. Crawford of Waynesboro, Glenn A. Crawford of Palmyra and Richard C. Crawford of Charlottesville; one daughter, Mrs. Joan McDaniel of Charlottesville; 22 grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by three half -sisters, Lucy Ann Conley Frazier, Lizzie Conley Shifflett and Bertha Ola Conley Shifflett. Graveside services were held Friday at 11 a.m. at Glen Kirk Presbyterian Church Cemetery in Waynesboro. Hawkins Funeral Chapel in Charlottesville handled the arrangements.

BERTHA OLA CONLEY SHIFFLETT 1892-1967

The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA Jan. 20, 1967

SOMERSET -- Mrs. Bertha Ola Shifflett, 74, of Somerset, died Wednesday in a Staunton hospital.  Daughter of the late Zack and Emma Morris Conley, she was born on March 15, 1892, in Greene County.  Her husband was the late Josh Shifflett.   She is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Ethel Lee Conley of Somerset, Mrs. Dorothy Lawson of Eheart and Mrs. Polly Conley of Stanardsville; a half-brother, Henry Crawford of Waynesboro; nine grandchildren and 16 great-grandchildren.  She was preceded in death by two sisters, Lucy Ann Conley Frazier  and Lizzie Shifflett ;and a half-sister, Louisa Conley Collier.  The funeral will be at 2 P.M. tomorrow at Preddy's Funeral Home of Gordonsville.  Burial will be in Maplewood Cemetery.

Dennis Collier 1930-2011

Dennis Collier, 81, of Ruckersville, Virginia, went to sleep peacefully surrounded by his wife, children and family on Friday, April 1, 2011, at his residence. He was born on March 22, 1930, in Greene County, to the late Clint Collier and Fannie Morris Collier.

Mr. Collier had a deep love for God and his church, Eheart Pentecostal in Barboursville, where he was the pastor for 40 years. He was an amazing gardener who loved the outdoors and enjoyed traveling with his wife. He will always be remembered as a wonderful husband, devoted father and cherished grandfather and great-grandfather.

He is survived by his wife of 58 years, Alice "Emogine" Collier; and six children, Faye Smith and her husband, Randy, of Charlottesville, Charles Collier and his wife, Susie, of Earlysville, Donnie Collier of Ruckersville, David Collier of Ruckersville, Betty Repass and her husband, Arnold, of Harrisonburg, and Michael Collier and his wife, Cathy, of Troy.

Additional survivors include his two siblings, Lester Collier and Addie Collier; six grandchildren; and seven great- grandchildren.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by his siblings, Raymond Collier, Bertie Rogers, Elmer Collier, Clay Collier, Mary Brill and Hattie Dickerson.

The family will receive friends from 6 until 8 p.m. Monday, April 4, 2011, at Ryan Funeral Home, 12819 Spotswood Trail, Ruckersville, VA 22968.

A funeral service will be held 11 a.m. Tuesday, April 5, 2011, at Eheart Pentecostal Church with Pastor Rodney Olinger officiating. Interment will follow in Holly Memorial Gardens.

• Leslie Harold Collier, virologist, born 9 February 1921; died 14 March 2011

Leslie Collier in the Gambia.

"Professor Leslie Collier, who has died aged 90, was a virologist and bacteriologist who played a key role in eradicating smallpox. He worked out a way of freeze-drying smallpox vaccine so that it could be carried into remote areas in high temperatures. He also made the crucial link between trachoma, affecting 84 million people worldwide, of whom about 8 million are visually impaired, and the sexually transmitted disease chlammydia.. His work changed the method of treatment for patients with trachoma, saving eyesight and many lives.

The world was at the mercy of the smallpox virus when Leslie began his research at the Lister Institute of Preventive Medicine, then in Chelsea, London, in 1948. In the early 1950s, an estimated 50m cases of smallpox occurred each year. A vaccine existed, but it would deteriorate within three days of being taken out of a refrigerator. Vaccination visits to remote villages in sub-Saharan Africa and South America had been pointless.

Leslie's breakthrough meant that, for the first time, teams of vaccinators were not dependent on refrigerators. A vaccinator could paddle a canoe into a tropical forest or hike across mountains carrying a simple kit containing a vial of freeze-dried vaccine (enough to vaccinate 200 people), saline solution to reconstitute the freeze-dried vaccine powder, a pot for boiling needles and two plastic tubes – one for clean needles and one for used needles. Importantly, it could also be mass-produced.

In 1967, the World Health Organisation decided to harness the potential of Leslie's vaccine and stamp out smallpox for good. It seemed a near-impossible task: 60% of the world's population then still lived in countries where smallpox was endemic. Unicef bought the vaccine in bulk and distributed it to those who needed it. By the mid-1970s, as many as 150,000 people were engaged in the task of finding infected villages and persuading their sometimes hostile inhabitants to accept the vaccination. By 1980, the WHO was able to announce that smallpox had been eradicated.

Twenty-five years later, an international smallpox meeting was hosted at Barts and the Royal London hospital to mark the anniversary of the last natural case of smallpox, in a hospital cook called Ali Maalin from Somalia. Leslie gave the keynote talk, although he didn't mention his contribution. I wasn't surprised. When we had written Human Virology (1993) together, Leslie wrote the chapter on smallpox and I wrote the chapter on influenza. When it came to the time for us to read each other's work, I was puzzled – to put it mildly – not to find a mention of him in his own chapter. That was typical of Leslie.

In fact Leslie had two firsts, whereas most of us would be quite content with one. The Chinese had already isolated a psittacosis-like bacterium from the eyes of trachoma patients (until then, the disease was thought to be caused by a virus). Leslie's trachoma research units in Chelsea and the Gambia confirmed this work by infecting blind human volunteers with tiny doses of chlamydia trachomatis. He found that chlamydia did indeed cause the disease. This would open the door to new treatments. Leslie was proud to be awarded the Chibret gold medal from the Ligue Contre Le Trachome in 1959.

Ironically, it was his diminishing eyesight that most upset Leslie in his last months. I will miss the afternoons at his flat near the Royal College of Physicians, Regent's Park, and our quiet literary criticisms of each other's writing. I always dreaded a small cough from him. "I don't think the students will understand this, John," he would say. He was usually right. Ours was a friendship bred from viruses, disease and vaccines.
Leslie was deputy director of the Lister Institute from 1968 to 1974 and director of the vaccines and sera laboratories at Elstree, Hertfordshire, from 1974 until their closure in 1978. He was professor of virology at the University of London from 1966 to 1988 and a consultant pathologist at the Royal London hospital from 1987.
He was a devoted editor of the classic bacteriology textbook Topley & Wilson's Principles of Bacteriology, Virology and Immunology (now Topley & Wilson's Microbiology and Microbial Infections). He was also joint editor of Developments in Antiviral Chemotherapy (1980). A fellow of the Royal Society of Pathologists, Leslie was president of the pathology section of the Royal Society of Medicine from 1986 to 1988.
In 1942, he married the film-maker Adeline Barnett, who survives him. Leslie was predeceased by their son David. "
Article written by John Oxford

Agnes Young

Agnes L. Young, 72 of Fairmount, Kan., passed away, March 7, 2010, at a Kansas City, Kan. hospital.
Visitation will be from 2 p.m. until 8 p.m., Saturday, March 13, 2010.
Graveside services will be at 2:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 17, 2010, at Leavenworth National Cemetery with the children officiating.
Agnes was born Jan. 1, 1938, in Brandywine, Md., the daughter of John and Bessie (Raynor) Kramer.
She married Alvin R. Young, July 31, 1954, in Forestville, Md., he preceded her in death on Sept. 29, 1990.
Agnes was a homemaker and enjoyed family and friends.
She is survived by seven sons; Dwayne and his wife Karen of Leavenworth, Larry and his wife Marilyn of Kansas City, Kan., Jeffery and his wife Nikki of Texas, James and his wife Belinda of, Kansas City, Kan., Ronnie of Paola, Kan., Adrian of Leavenworth, Roland and his wife Stephanie of Chillicothe, Mo., three daughters; Loretta Anderson of Leavenworth, Donna Shoemaker and her husband Donald of Kansas City, Kan., Deborah Hall of Leavenworth, 16 grandchildren, 16 great-grandchildren, one brother,  George Kramer and his wife Ester of Baltimore, Md., two sisters; Helen Rorrer of College Park, Md., Mary Thomas of Forestville, Md, and many nieces and nephews.
Memorials in her name may be directed to the family.
Arrangements have been entrusted to Belden-Larkin Funeral Home and Cremation Services. Condolences may be sent or to share a memory go to www.beldenlarkin.com

Richard Alan Raynor 1962-1993



Richard Alan Raynor  circa 1986

Richard Alan Raynor, 30, of 279 Cabarrus Ave East, Concord, NC , died at 2:40pm Sunday , February 7, 1993.  He had been diagnosed with a heart condition three years prior.  He was with family and church friends when his sudden death occurred.

The funeral will be at 2pm Wednesday at Branchview First Church of God, with the Rev. Robert A. Jordan and Rev. Gene A. Smith officiating.

The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 pm Tuesday at Hartsell Funeral Home  and at the home prior to the visitation.

Born December 5, 1962, in Charlottesville, VA, Alan was the son of the late Richard Russell Raynor and the late Betty Ann Beahm Raynor.  

He moved from Gordonsville, VA to Concord, NC in 1983.   He was a Maintenance Mechanic with the City of Concord Housing Authority.  He was a member of Branchview First Church of God.  


Alan took his roll in life seriously: son, brother, husband, father, friend, employee and neighbor. He worked with the same strong ethic as his father had modeled. Alan was humble with a dry sense of humor. He enjoyed fishing, working on cars and giving of his time to help others. He was intellectually gifted. He loved to read as a boy and young teen. He had aspirations of becoming a teacher but in his late teens he got caught up with the "wrong crowd" and his path went in a different direction.  He rededicated his life to God in his twenties and lived an exemplary Christian faith.

Survivors include his daughter, Laura Anne Raynor of the home; three brothers Timothy W. Raynor of Orange, VA, and Kenneth W. Raynor (Dottie), Brian K. Raynor of Concord, NC, and a sister Sandra Raynor Furr  (Wayne) of Kannapolis, NC;  nieces & nephews Autumn Furr, Cassandra, Aaron, Jared, Wesley and Daniel Raynor. He is also survived by former in-laws Brenda and Walter Safrit (father of Alan's ex-wife, Beverly Safrit Raynor).  Close friends Lisa Crisco, Melonie Foley, Marci Kindley, Doug Patterson, Scott Mills, and  Larry Widenhouse and many others mourn this loss. 

Memorials may be made to the building fund of Alan’s church: Branchview First Church of God PO Box 1077, Concord, NC 28026. 

Alan's 30 birthday 12/5/92

Christmas 1992

Richard Alan Raynor  Age 16



Alan age 5



Sandra Faye Raynor and Richard Alan Raynor

http://byandbylord.blogspot.com/2012/05/alma-rose-heilig-safrit-1917-2011.html

CLAUDE WESLEY BEAHM

CLAUDE WESLEY BEAHM passed away Tuesday, June 21, 2011.  He was the beloved husband of 58 years to Margaret Ellen Beahm; father of Beverly Long (Dan), Bonnie Pribble, Brenda Carpineta (Gary), Bernice Burroughs (Mark), David Beahm and the late Barbara Hinton; brother of Milton Beahm, Mary Ellen Spicer, Sarah Jane Thomas, Charles E. Beahm, Mable Clore, Gladys Nicholson and Tommy Beahm. Also survived by nine grandchildren, eight great-grandchildren and one on the way.  He was the son of the late John William Beahm and Rosa Lee Corbin Beahm.   He was also proceded in death by twelve other siblings.  
Relatives and friends may call at BORGWARDT FUNERAL HOME, 4400 Powder Mill Rd., Beltsville, MD, Saturday, June 25 from 11 a.m. until service time at 1 p.m. Interment St. John's Episcopal Church Cemetery.

Claude Wesley Beahm and Margaret Ellen (Bryant) Beahm  circa 1950

Family Portrait

DAUGHTERS: Barbara (deceased 2005), Bonnie, Beverly, Bernice, and Brenda. 

SON:David       

PARENTS: Margaret, and Claude Beahm

Claude Wesley Beahm

William H. Shomo 1823 - 1909 obituary

William H. Shomo

At half past 2 o’clock on last Sunday afternoon, February 21, 1909 Mr. William H. Shomo departed this life at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Isaac Price on the James Spitzer farm, three miles northeast of New Market, Va.; aged 86 yrs. 9 mths. and 10 days. As recorded in the Valley at the time, about five weeks ago, Mr. Shomo accidentally slipped, fell and broke his left thigh-bone and dislocated his hip which injuries no doubt hastened his death. His remains were conveyed Tuesday to Newport, Page County and interred in the graveyard, Rev. Edward French officiating in the Christian Church. The following persons accompanied the remains: Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Price, three sons and one daughter; and Mrs. Anna Breedlove of Fishersville, Va. In addition to his daughters Mrs. Price and Mrs. Breedlove , the following of his other children also attended the funeral; Mr. Samuel Shomo, Mrs, Nannie Bluehart, and Mrs. Minnie Alger of Newport, Va. And Mrs. Rebecca Propst of Shenandoah, Va. Distance prevented his other children from attending the funeral, namely, Mrs. Sarah Fox of Arkansas; Mrs. Catherine Gaines of Altoona, Pa.; and Mr. John Wm. Shomo of Low Moor, Va.
The deceased was the son of Mr. Daniel & Dianna Reamer Shomo, and was born and reared in New Market, Va. When quite a young man he removed to Newport, Page County, Va. Where he carried on blacksmithing for sixty-three years. He married Miss Frances Louderback, soon after locating in that section. He was a member of the Christian Church, an industrious and useful citizen whose death will be mourned by a large number of relatives, friends and acquaintances.
Mr. Shomo spent the last seven years of his life in this locality, having moved into our midst several years after his wife Frances' death.

Lucy Ann Conley Frazier 1883-1961

The Daily Progress, Charlottesville, VA
LUCY ANN CONLEY FRAZIER
Mrs. Emanuel Frazier, 78, of RFD 4, died today at her home. She was the former Lucy Ann Conley, born Sept. 13, 1883, in Greene County, daughter of Zack and Emma Morris Conley. She is survived by her husband; two sons, John Gilbert Frazier and James Raymond Frazier; four daughters, Mrs. Lizzie Sprouse, Mrs. Lila Sandridge, Mrs. Claudia Davis and Mrs. Rachel Wells, all of Charlottesville; a sister, Mrs. Bertha Ola Shiflett of Ehearts Corner; a half-brother, Henry Crawford of Waynesboro; 13 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.  She was preceded in death by a sister, Lizzie Shifflett and a half-sister Louisa C. Collier.  The funeral will be held Saturday at 3:30 p.m. at the M. C. Hill Funeral Home, with burial in Holly Memorial Gardens.