Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Galloway, Mary Elizabeth McLaughlin April 5, 2002
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Virginian-Pilot  April 9, 2002
Mary Elizabeth McLaughlin Galloway died Friday, April 5, 2002, in Virginia Beach. 
The cause of death was heart disease.

She was born July 11, 1917, in Ocean View, Norfolk County, Va., to John Patrick 
McLaughlin and Marie Bell Monteiro McLaughlin. She attended St. Mary's Academy, 
Holt and Chapel Streets in Norfolk. Her husband, Romie Lee Galloway, formerly of 
Wilson, N.C., preceded her in death in January, 1972.

Elizabeth Galloway, as she was known to so many, leaves her nine children: John 
Romie Galloway and his wife Geneva of Gretna, La., Paul Austin Galloway and his 
wife Susan of Virginia Beach, Robert Eugene Galloway of St. Petersburg, Fla., Mary 
Elizabeth Murden of Virginia Beach, Albert Owen Galloway and his wife Sara of 
Virginia Beach, Michael Edward Galloway and his wife Kristen of Virginia Beach, 
the Rev. Marie Eleanor Galloway Pogorelec and her husband David of Chesapeake, 
Rebecca May Skeffington and her husband Robert of Virginia Beach, and Jean Ann 
Hopkins and her husband Richard of Chesapeake; and her brother, Austin John 
McLaughlin and his wife Eda. Her family includes 18 grandchildren and 10 great-
grandchildren.

Elizabeth, as the single parent, worked in a number of unique settings beginning 
with the Music Shop and the Beacon Book Store in downtown Norfolk, followed many 
years later as cafeteria manager for Diesel Injection, hostess for Shoney's 
Restaurant, neighborhood social worker, receptionist for Southeast Tidewater 
Opportunity Project (STOP), and telephone operator and receptionist at the Eastern 
Virginia Medical School, all in Norfolk.

Elizabeth was active in social welfare reform beginning in 1957, where she 
advocated and succeeded in achieving major changes in the manner in which the City 
of Norfolk Social Services provided public assistance to single-parent families.

Funeral arrangements are being handled by H.D. Oliver Funeral Apts., 1501 Colonial 
Ave., Norfolk. Visitation will be at 7 p.m. today at the funeral home. A funeral 
Mass will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Sacred Heart Church, West Princess Anne 
Road at Stockley Gardens in Ghent, Norfolk.

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