Middle College High School Washington Alumni Obituaries

was born on the morning of Saturday July 17 1937 to John Sumner Barge Sr. and Willie Evelyn Langley Barge. She was raised in Norfolk Virginia by her loving parents alongside her seven siblings. After an extended illness Mrs. Phillips entered her heavenly reward just before dusk on Friday afternoon J...

BRUNSWICK Alice O. Watkins was born to Earl Edward and Minnie Mae Oswald on January 15 1922 in Haverstraw New York. Her family moved in 1927 to Mt. Vernon New York where Alice attended public schools until graduating from A. B. Davis High School in 1939. Alice continued study at State Teachers Coll...

GRAY On August 21 2017 Teresa Rose Gonzalez Diaz passed away after a long battle with Alzheimers. She had the victory because now without a doubt she is looking down from Heaven on all her family that she has missed for the past several years. She was born November 24 1927 in Clearwater California ...

Born on July 27 1941 in Hickory NC to Walter Childs Jr. and Liberty Washington Childs Dr. Walter Childs III entered the world with a purpose as strong and enduring as the mountains that framed his early years. From humble beginnings during the era of segregation he rose to become a transformative se...

James Jim Edward Bruya was born on December 10 1950 in Niskayuna New York to Cliff and Lillian Bruya. As the middle child with two sisters on each side Jim developed the determination and inventiveness that carried him throughout his life. Ambitious from an early age he stood out for his curiosity a...

Joseph Joey H. Ager II was born in Washington District of Columbia and raised in the community of River Terrace. At the age of six he and his parents Verline Crockett Ager and J. Harrison Ager moved to Landover Maryland. At the same time he became the Big Bro of his new Lil Sis Millicent Ager Smith....

Shelly Jean Haugland Drabek is now free from the constraints of this world and was able to leap into the loving arms of her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ on November 30th 2025 at the age of 62 years old. Shellys faith and the peace that comes with her relationship with Jesus helped her endure a diagn...

Jerry Ronnie Hartzog age 80 passed away on December 28 after an extended illness. He grew up in Chipley Florida the son of Dewey and Rena Hartzog. He graduated from Chipley High School where he played basketball and was voted friendliest by the 1963 graduating class. After serving a stint in the U.S...

Julie was born Julia Anne Davis in a suburb of Indianapolis IN after an eightyear battle with ovarian cancer she passed away at Avas House on December 18 2025. Heritage Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. The date of the funeral is January 16 2026. Visitation to start at 330 pm and services t...

When I am an old woman, I shall wear purpleWith a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me. …– from “Warning” by Jenny JosephCharlotte Cole of Mt. Vernon, Missouri, died November 27, 2025, following a stroke and heart failure. Her once-active life was radically altered by an earlier debilitating...

Mr. Lloyd C. Yelton 89 died peacefully at Atrium Health Cleveland Pines Nursing Facility on Monday January 12 after a brief illness. The youngest son of 8 children born to William Yelton and Sallie Ellison Yelton Lloyd grew up in Mooresboro NC. After graduating from Boiling Springs High School he jo...

Steven V. OwensKennewick, Washington -Steven (Steve) Vern Owens, 91, passed away peacefully in his home surrounded by his loving family on Friday, August 15, 2025.Steve was born on July 9, 1934, in the Good Samaritan Hospital in Kearney, Nebraska, to parents Steven Robert Owens and Eraina (Irene Mar...