JAMES BAKER
HAMPTON – James Baker died Sept. 26, 2006. A funeral service will be held Monday, Oct. 2, at Community Funeral Home, Norfolk Chapel. Arrangements by Community Funeral Home, Norfolk Chapel.
CHARLES K. BRINKLEY
SUFFOLK – Charles Kenneth Brinkley, 84, died Sept. 22, 2006, in Suffolk. The funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30, in Macedonia Baptist Church. Interment will be in the church cemetery. Arrangements by Crocker Funeral Home.
JAMES D. ‘BUDDY’ CURL
DENDRON – James David “Buddy” Curl, 55, son of Vonnell Turner Curl, died Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2006. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept, 30, at Dendron Baptist Church. Arrangements by Purviance Funeral Home, Wakefield.
LORRAINE N. DETLOFF
NEWPORT NEWS – Lorraine N. Detloff, 86, wife of Donald V. Detloff, died Wednesday, Sept. 27, 2006. Arrangements by W. J. Smith & Son Funeral Home.
IRVING LEE DODSON
HAMPTON – Irving Lee Dodson, brother of Gwendolyn White, Terry Whitlow, Larry, James and Michael Dodson, died Tuesday, Sept. 26, 2006. Arrangements by Cooke Bros. Funeral Chapel.
HERBERT RAYMOND DRAYTON JR.
ALLENDALE, S.C. – Funeral services for Herbert Raymond Drayton Jr. will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30, at Allendale Elementary School Gymnasium, Highway 278 in Allendale, S.C. Burial will follow in Ervington Baptist Church Cemetery, also in Allendale, S.C. Mr. Drayton will lie in state beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday.
Mr. Drayton died Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2006, in Sentara Hospital Complex, Hampton, Va.
Cave Funeral Services, Inc., 1521 Razor Road, Allendale, SC 29810, in charge of arrangements.
ALFONSO ‘ALEX’ GWALTNEY
SALISBURY, MD. – Alfonso “Alex” Gwaltney, 34, husband of Melissa Gwaltney and son of Ida Mae Gwaltney and Leroy Jones, died Saturday, Sept. 23, 2006. Arrangements by Lewis Watson Funeral Home, Salisbury, Md.
BEATRICE P. HEARN
GLOUCESTER – Mrs. Beatrice P. Hearn, a lifetime resident of Gloucester County, departed this life on Monday, Sept. 25, 2006.
She was a member of Rising Valley Baptist Church and active in several ministries of the church and the Church Mother. She was a member of the Gloucester Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
Treasuring her memory are her daughter, Eloise H. Smith (William D.); grandchildren, Kevin D. Smith, Karen A. Smith (Don) and Keith A. Smith; nephew, William H. Palmer; nieces, nephews, numerous relatives and friends; also the Rising Valley Baptist Church Family and extended family, the Diggs, Rice and Carter families.
A funeral service will be held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 30, in Rising Valley Baptist Church, James Store, Va., with the Rev. Darry O. Echols, Pastor, officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery.
Visitation will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. Friday at Howard Funeral Home. Mrs. Hearn will be placed in the church at noon Saturday.
The family will assemble at the church at 12:30 p.m.
MICHAEL CURTIS MEDLIN
NEWPORT NEWS – Michael Curtis Medlin, 45, died Friday, Sept. 15, 2006.
A native of Newport News, he had resided in Texas for the last 25 years.
Survivors include his mother, Sarah D. Medlin; two children, Nikki Medlin and her fianc
