Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Asby, Gilbert Rumley, Sr. July 3, 1995
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Virginian-Pilot July 5, 1995
Gilbert Rumley “Gil” Asby Sr., of the 6400 block of Powder Horn Drive, died July 
3, 1995, after a yearlong fight with brain cancer.
Mr. Asby was a native of North Carolina and had resided in Norfolk for the past 
41 years. During the past 40 years, he had been involved in both retail and 
wholesale furniture businesses, and he recently retired from a wholesale 
partnership with his son Gilbert R. Asby Jr.
Mr. Asby was a member and the senior warden of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church in 
Norfolk; a member and past president of the Norfolk Chapter of the Cosmopolitan 
Club International and a member of its Beacon Club. He was also a member of the 
Elizabeth Lodge No. 34 and the Scottish Rite Bodies of the Khedive Temple of the 
Shrine. He was an Army veteran of World War II, during which he served in the 
European theater of war.
Survivors include his wife, the former Virginia Swain Woodley; a daughter, Alice 
Woodley Asby of Norfolk; two sons, Gilbert R. “Bert” Asby Jr. and his wife, 
Carrie Savage Asby, of Richmond, and Thomas Edgar Asby and his wife, Kathy 
Tugwell Asby, of Herndon, Va.; a sister, Hazel Asby Lane of Henderson, N.C.; and 
four grandchildren, Courtney Stewart and Meredith Frances Asby of Richmond, 
Lauren Woodley and Olivia Nicole Asby of Herndon, Va.
A funeral Mass will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday in St. Stephen’s Episcopal 
Church by the Rev. Peter G. Magill. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery. The 
family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. today at H.D. Oliver Funeral Apts., 
Norfolk Chapel. Memorial donations may be made to the St. Stephen’s Episcopal 
Church Memorial Fund, 1445 Norview Ave., Norfolk, Va., 23518, or to the Diabetes 
Research and Treatment Center Foundation, 855 W. Brambleton Ave., Norfolk, Va., 
23510.


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