Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Asby, Gilbert Rumley  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 year long 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 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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ASBY, GILBERT R I26879 Section ELM, Block 5TH A E, Lot 102, Space 4 0 07/03/1995


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