Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Chesson, Jr., Wesley Earle November 16, 2009
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Virginian-Pilot  November 18, 2009
NEWPORT NEWS - Wesley Earle Chesson Jr., of New Castle, Del., and Newport News, 
died in a Hampton hospital Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. He was born Feb. 9, 1922, in 
Norfolk, to Wesley Earle and Madeline Bedout Chesson. Earle spent his early years 
there including Willoughby Spit and attended Sacred Heart Elementary School. When 
the family moved to D.C., Earle lived with his parents there and in Alexandria, 
graduating from Tech High School in 1939. He entered The College of William and 
Mary that fall as a member of the Class of 1943, worked as a waiter in Trinkle 
Hall, and joined Theta Delta Chi. He left the college to enlist in the U.S. Navy 
March 31, 1942. After training with a Construction Battalion in Mississippi and 
Rhode Island, he was sent to the Azores. Earle received an honorable discharge May 
26, 1946, and re- enlisted in the U.S. Naval Reserve a few months later. He 
completed his A.B. at William and Mary and married Virginia Winborne Ramsey the 
same year, his beloved wife of more than 59 years. They had two sons, Michael B., 
of Belmont, Mass., and Mark W., of Newport News. Earle worked briefly for the 
Virginia State Corporation Commission before taking a position with Brooks 
Trucking on the North Boulevard in Richmond. He worked for Brooks in Richmond and 
was a terminal manager in Greensboro, N.C., and Newport News. He left for a job at 
Newport Business Forms, and then spent many years at Ferguson High School as a 
history and government teacher and earned an M.A. in history from Old Dominion 
University in 1974. Retiring from the Newport News school system in 1976, he and 
his wife enjoyed annual fall trips to Montana, as well as their second home in New 
Castle. Earle retired from the Naval Reserve as a Master Chief Yeoman (E-9) in 
February 1982. He was a member of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia 
Antiquities, Fleet Reserve Association, Delaware Historical Society, Maryland 
Historical Society, Montana Club, Museum of the Confederacy, Order of the White 
Jacket at William and Mary, Society of 1812, Sons of the American Revolution, Sons 
of Confederate Veterans, Southern Historical Association, Virginia Historical 
Society and other organizations. He attended Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Newport 
News and St. Peter's Church in New Castle. In addition to his sons, Earle is 
survived by four grandchildren, Sarah Winborne, Jane Schomburg, Mark Allyn, and 
Virginia Woodward. There will be a private burial service at St. Mary's Cemetery 
in Norfolk. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to The College of William 
and Mary Foundation, P.O. Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795; Delaware 
Historical Society, 505 N. Market St., Wilmington, DE 19801; or Virginia 
Historical Society, P.O. Box 7311, Richmond, VA, 23221- 0311. H.D. Oliver Funeral 
Apts., Norfolk chapel, is handling arrangements.

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