Orange County High Virginia Alumni Obituaries

We say farewell to Claudia Jean Hughes 70 of Lanexa VA who suddenly passed on October 7 2025. Claudia was born in Orange County Virginia and graduated from Orange County High School. She visited Virginia Beach after high school and fell in love with the area. She moved to Newport News and applied to...

Mildred Elizabeth Towe Tyner passed away on Friday, February 13, 2026. Born on March 9, 1933, in Suffolk, Virginia, she was raised in the Ginter Park section of Richmond, Virginia. She attended Ginter Park Elementary School and Thomas Jefferson High School. In 1954, Millie graduated from Iowa State ...

Margaret Sudsberry Johnson passed away on December 2 2025. She was born in Banks Arkansas on October 22 1939 at her grandmothers farmhouse. Her parents Mary Lou and Royce Sudsberry moved to Memphis when she was 2 years old. She graduated from Whitehaven High School. Margaret first worked for Union P...

Karl Welford Clatterbuck, 80, of Louisa, Virginia, passed away peacefully on Friday, January 23, 2026, at the Veterans Administration Hospital after a brief battle with throat cancer.Born in Charlottesville, Virginia, on September 9, 1945, Karl was a proud graduate of Orange County High School. He d...

Sterling Eugene Ambrose went to be with the Lord of February 4 2026. He passed away peacefully at home in his bed. He was born February 23 1949 at War Memorial Hospital in Berkeley Springs. He was the son of James Robert and Julia Eileen Ambrose. He was a Baptist and attended The Redeemers Church. H...

The family of Malcolm Matheson, III is saddened to announce the sudden passing of their father. Malcolm passed quietly at his home on Saturday, February 7, 2026 in The Plains, Virginia surrounded by family and loved ones after a brief illness. With his characteristic inner strength and courage, he l...

Georgine “Gegi” Winslett was born on August 3, 1936, in Beverly Hills, California. She proudly described herself as an “Army Brat.” Her father, Lt. Col. E.J. “Jack” Winslett, was born and raised in Tallapoosa in southeastern Alabama. Raised in a farming family, he served in the U.S. Army in both in ...

James Pendleton “Jim” RayHILLSBOROUGH — James Pendleton “Jim” Ray, 84, passed away on Thursday, January 8, 2026, at Duke University Hospital. He was born in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, to the late J. Marvin Ray and Aileen Blanche Pendleton Ray, and lived most of his life in Hillsborough, Ora...

TODD JOHNSTONThough our hearts are heavy, our gratitude is endless as we share that Thomas “Todd” Johnston went home to find his place in Heaven on November 4, 2025, at 2:47 PM. The light and love surrounding him in his final days were a true reflection of the profound impact he made during his time...

Kenneth Charles Pfiester 73 of Sturgeon Bay Wisconsin passed away peacefully after a brief but fierce battle with Lewy Body Dementia on January 18 2026 at Blue Jay Springs Assisted Living in Green Bay. He was born March 24 1952 in Sturgeon Bay WI to Betty Jane Pfiester. Kenneth was raised by his mot...

Robert E. Bob Dely was born in Newark New Jersey and raised for most of his early life in Bloomfield and West Orange N.J. died on Thursday July 17 2025 in York County Virginia where he had lived since June 1974. Bob joined the United States Air Force in July 1955 after graduation from West Orange Hi...

The Reverend Lloyd Haskett Sr. age 71 of Hampton Virginia passed away peacefully on October 18 2025 at Sentara Virginia Beach General Hospital. Born June 2 1954 in Surry County he was the fourth of seven children of the late Ernest and Annie Bell Haskett. Raised in the church he developed a lifelong...

Louise A. Harman 99 of Wilcoe WV peacefully entered eternal rest on February 11 2026. She was born on June 26 1926 in Elbert West Virginia to the late Thomas Warren and Mary Elizabeth Penn Abbington. Louise was preceded in death by her husband of 50 years Mandle J. Harman her parents her sisters Ame...

W Kenneth Pruitt 85 of Boyce Virginia passed away on Wednesday February 18 2026 at the VA Hospice Unit in Martinsburg WV. He was born on June 6 1940 in Orange VA to the son of the late Woodrow Pruitt and Lillian Taylor Pruitt. He graduated from Damascus High School in Damascus Maryland and attended ...

Joseph Michael Joe Freeman aged 77 of Logan Ohio passed away on Friday January 30 2026. Joe was born January 1 1949 in Logan Ohio to the late Hollis L. and Nina Gail Morgan Freeman. After graduating Logan High School he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps in 1968 and proudly served with Mike ...

Betty May Sacra, 97, of Winchester, Va, died December 13, 2025 at Dogwood Village Nursing Facility in Orange, Va.Born on January 15, 1928, in Lonaconing, Maryland, she was the daughter or Joseph E. May and Ethel Green May. She was preceded in death by her husband, Ellis Robert Sacra, on September 1,...