Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Berkley, Fairfax Mackie January 17, 1991
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Virginian-Pilot, The (Norfolk, VA) - January 18, 1991

Fairfax Mackie Berkley, of the 700 block of Baldwin Place, a well-known 
Norfolk educator, died Jan. 17, 1991, in a hospital. He was 84.
Mr. Berkley was born in the Berkley section of Norfolk, which was founded in 
1870 and named for his paternal grandfather, Lycurgus Berkley.
Mr. Berkley graduated from Maury High, the College of William and Mary, with 
an arts degree in 1927, and was awarded a master of arts degree by Columbia 
University in 1934. He completed his education at University of Virginia 
Graduate School and the Sorbonne in Paris.
He began a 43-year association with the Norfolk Public Schools in 1927. He 
taught at Ruffner Junior High School and Maury High School, and from 1942-60 
was assistant principal of Blair Junior High School. From 1961-66, he was 
assistant principal of Azalea Gardens Middle School and retired in 1970 as 
principal of Willard Junior High School.
As a descendant of many of the prominent founders of the Norfolk area, he 
was an enthusiastic authority on the history of the region. He was a lineal 
descendant of, among others, Sir George Yeardley, the governor of the 
Virginia colony who presided over the first legislative assembly at 
Jamestown in 1619; Capt. Adam Thoroughgood, who traditionally named the 
Norfolk area for his native shire in England; John Ferebee, who surveyed the 
original 50 acres that were the nucleus of present-day Norfolk; and 
Cornelius Calvert, who for 40 years was an alderman and twice mayor of the 
Borough of Norfolk.
He was a member of the Virginia Historical Society; Order of Cape Henry 
1607; Princess Anne County Historical Society and the Arts and Humanities 
Commission of Virginia Beach. He was a past director of Norfolk branch of 
the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities; a past 
president of Norfolk Historical Society; and past president and secretary of 
the Norfolk chapter of Virginia Society of the Sons of the American 
Revolution. He was a past president of the Norfolk Education Association and 
a member of the state and national education associations.
Mr. Berkley was a member and vestryman of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church.
He is survived by several nieces and nephews.
The funeral will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday in St. Andrew's Episcopal 
Church by the Rev. Harlan Tillberg. Burial will be in Magnolia Cemetery. 
H.D. Oliver Funeral Apartments, Norfolk, is handling arrangements.


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