Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Brockenbrough, James Gill, Jr. April 15, 2001
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Virginian-Pilot April 18, 2001
MARBLEHEAD, Mass. - After a brief illness, Gill Brockenbrough died on Easter 
Sunday in Salem Hospital, near his second home in Marblehead, Mass. Born on Dec. 
20, 1943, in Suffolk, Gill grew up and spent most of his life in Norfolk. He 
graduated from Norfolk Academy and attended Randolph-Macon College and Old 
Dominion University.
Gill began his business career as the fourth generation to be involved in his 
family business, The James G. Gill Company. He was also the co-founder and past 
president of First Colony Coffee and Tea Company, a gourmet coffee and tea 
business that, with his brother Tom, guided from a small brand into one of the 
leading specialty coffee companies in the United States. He was especially proud 
to be among the first to recognize and then advance the public's desire for 
gourmet coffee. Later in life, Gill developed a hobby in restoring an old 
gristmill in Lowesville, Va. From this, he founded Woodson's Mill, where he 
lived and developed a successful business after retiring from First Colony.
He is survived by his wife, Salley Hiller Brockenbrough; children from a prior 
marriage, Jimmy and his spouse, Wendy, and a granddaughter, Catherine, Mercer, 
Austin, and Will Brockenbrough; parents, James G. and Mary Cross Brockenbrough; 
and brother, Tom Brockenbrough.
A private memorial service will be held at a later date.


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