Peninsula High School Washington Alumni Obituaries

Bob passed away January 10, 2026 in Anchorage. He was the son of Milton T. Haneline and Barbara Haneline Gavin, bornin San Diego, California June 7, 1940. He grew up in the Pacific Northwest, graduated from high school in Tacoma, Washington in 1958. He attended the University of Washington, was in...

Boyce Elwin Lavender Jr. 75 passed away at home surrounded by his family on Tuesday September 10 2024. Boyce was a lifelong resident of Newport News a 1966 graduate of Warwick High School and the NASA Apprentice School. He worked at NASA for 38 years retiring in 2004 as the Executive Director of Win...

Cecilia Anne Lumpkin Newton departed this life on July 9 2024 passing away peacefully after a brief illness. Cecilia spent her youth in Seneca and Clemson SC. As a young adult she moved to Newport News VA where she made her home and lived the remainder of her life. Cecilia was a proud graduate of Se...

Linda DeAlba Filer 84 passed away peacefully at home on November 6 2024. Born in Portsmouth VA she was a lifelong resident of Hampton Roads and had made Newport News her home since 1965. A graduate of Cradock High School in 1958 she pursued political science and social studies at Mary Washington Col...

In Loving Memory Joyce Lorine Gordon Lee March 30 1925 January 16 2026 Joyce was born and raised on a farm in Tho...

Born just months before the stock market crash precipitated the Great Depression Roy was the fifth and final child of Julia and Martin Schonberg in Minneapolis Minnesota. His father immigrated from Estonia and became an electrician while his mother was born and raised in a Swedish family in the Twin...

Joyce Marcella Dube age 86 passed away June 8 2024 at Life Care Center in Puyallup Washington. Joyce was born on April 2 1938 in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan in the small town of Chatham. She was the youngest of eight children born to Peter and Ellen Koski Johnson. The family lived on a dairy far...

Va to the late Joseph Thomas and Helen Diggs Freeman. Josephine was educated in the Newport News Public Schools and a graduate of George Washington Carver High School. On June 9 1962 she married Jeremiah White Sr From their union of 32 years three children were born. Lolita Wilkins Jeremiah White Jr...

Christopher Mark Rudzis age 70 passed away at his residence in Carmel California where he had lived since 2021. Born in Newport Rhode Island Christopher was the son of Col. Edwin Rudzis USMC Ret. and Grace Babs Rudzis Glasgow ne Frier. As the child of a military family Christopher experienced a dyna...

On December 2 2025 Miss Lucille Majorie Woodley 82 peacefully went home to be with her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ in the presence of her family and two favorite Deacons. Affectionately known as Thomasine Tommy or Tom Lucille was born on November 26 1943 to the late Thomas Hardy Mason and Emma Virg...