Staunton High Virginia Alumni Obituaries

Our world lost an honest kind loving and thoughtful Christian man Danny Vaughn Brookshire 73 who passed away on Saturday November 15 2025. He was born on March 6 1952 to the late James Edwin and Margaret Marie Carter Brookshire of WinstonSalem North Carolina. Jimmie and Margie moved with Danny and h...

CHURCHVILLE – Paul Benton “Ben” McManaway, 76, passed away Wednesday, October 22, 2025.Ben was born in Staunton on April 4, 1949, and was a son of Arlene Wimer McManaway of Churchville and the late Ralph Benton McManaway. He was a 1968 graduate of Buffalo Gap High School and a U. S. Air Force veter...

David F. Howsare, 84, of Staunton, Virginia, passed away Sunday, September 21 2025.Dave was born October 6, 1940, the oldest son of the late Fred and Edna (Cessna) Howsare of Colerain Township, Bedford County, Pennsylvania.Dave graduated from Bedford High School in 1958 and enlisted in the US Navy i...

age 70 of Bridgewater VA passed away on Wednesday December 31 2025 at Harrisonburg Health and Rehab. He was born on April 6 1955 in Moyers WV the son of the late Cameron Gilbert and Gladys Gertrude Strother Moats. Hank was a 1974 graduate of Franklin High School and he attended Moats Chapel Church. ...

age 74 of McGaheysville VA passed away on Monday November 17 2025 at his home. He was born on February 11 1951 in Shamrock TX the son of the late Sammie Hawley and the late Raymond Curtis and Ruby Belle Dollars Mitchell. On October 24 1987 Charles married Camela Dawn Wagoner Mitchell who survives in...

Larry Smith went to be with our Lord on December 24, 2025. Larry was born in Staunton, Virginia on August 9, 1946, to John Franklin Smith and Dorothy Lunsford Smith. Larry attended Robert E Lee High School, where he was a three-year letterman in football, basketball, and baseball. He played on the S...

William Carl Ligon age 76 husband of Sylvia Reese Ligon passed away December 26 2025. He was the son of the late Henry Howard "Jack" and Hilda Sizemore Ligon a 1969 graduate of Bluestone High School a member of New Hope Baptist Church and the Staunton River Hunt Club. Carl learned the trade of tobac...

Marian Rabinowitz, 91 died December 23, 2025, peacefully at her home at the Blake in Charlottesville, Virginia. She was preceded in death by her husband Sy and brother Nelson Goodman. Born January 14, 1934, in Baltimore Md. to Gertrude and Morris Goodman.Marian was an educator, a scholar, a communit...

Born January 10 1951 in New Orleans to Thomas F. Carroll and Pearl Duplantis Carroll Peggy grew up in Westwego La. and later New Jersey. She graduated from Montclair High School and earned a bachelors degree in mathematics and computer science from Montclair State University. After working in her fi...