Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Powell, Raymond H. J., Jr. September 18, 2003 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Robert Woolfitt http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00034.html#0008401 August 2, 2022, 12:15 pm Virginian-Pilot September 23, 2003 Raymond H.J. Powell Jr., 51, died Sept. 18, 2003, at his home in Alexandria, Va. Ray was the son of Eleanor and the late Raymond H.J. Powell Sr., of Norfolk. He was a member of Norfolk Catholic High School's Class of 1970. Ray graduated from the Citadel in 1974 with a degree in Electrical Engineering and the U.S. Naval Nuclear Power School in 1975. Ray left the Navy as a lieutenant in 1979, and worked in the nuclear power industry and the Department of the Navy. He graduated from the George Washington University National Law Center in 1988 and became a patent attorney. Ray worked for Oliff & Berridge and Sughrue, Mion, Zinn, Macpeak & Seas in Washington, D.C., and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., in Korea, before becoming a partner in his own successful patent law firm, Westerlund & Powell, P.C., in Alexandria, Va. Ray is survived by his daughter, Rachel Powell, and was predeceased by his stepson, Brandon Troppman. He is survived by five sisters, Eileen Powell of Norfolk, Ann Sharp and her husband, Larry, of Alexandria, Va., Susan Tolbert, Betsy Powell of Norfolk, Jane Yockey and her husband, Patrick, of Norfolk; and his five brothers, Richard Powell and Michael Powell and his wife, Christie, all of Norfolk, Daniel Powell and his wife, Christina, of Ann Arbor, Mich., Stephen Powell and his wife, Meghan, of Chesapeake, Martin Powell and friend Jennifer DeHart of Richmond. Ray is also survived by nieces and nephews, Jennifer and Jeremy Sharp, Cassandra, Marc and Jonathan Powell, Meghan Tolbert, Fiona Powell, Anna Powell, Emma, Daniel and Robert Yockey and Simon DeHart. A Christian wake will be held at 7 p.m. today in H.D. Oliver Funeral Apts., Norfolk Chapel. A Mass of the Resurrection will be celebrated Wednesday at 10 a.m. in Sacred Heart Catholic Church on Princess Anne Road in Norfolk, followed by burial in St. Mary's Cemetery on Granby Street in Norfolk. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/p/powell4027nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/vafiles/ File size: 2.5 Kb