Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Whitaker Sr., John H. March 3, 2002
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Virginian-Pilot, The (Norfolk, VA) - Wednesday, March 6, 2002 
VIRGINIA BEACH - John H. Whitaker Sr., 75, of the 4100 block of Marblehead
Drive, died March 3, 2002, in Hampton VA Hospital.

Born in Scotland Neck, N.C., Mr. Whitaker graduated from Booker T. Washington
High School. He was a retired merchant seaman and chief cook from the Naval
Hospital and also retired from the Army. He received the Korean Service Medal,
Bronze Star, Combat Infantry Badge, and United Nations Service Medal. He was a
member of The Way of The Cross Church, Norfolk.

The widower of Mary W. Jones, he is survived by two daughters, Loretta A.
Peguese and husband, Fred of Virginia Beach, and Karen Adams and husband, James
of Jacksonville, Fla.; two sons, John H. Whitaker Jr. of Virginia Beach and
Anthony P. Whitaker and wife, Bernadette of Dale City, Va.; four sisters,
Cornelia Whitney, Christine Hayes and Maxine Lewis, all of Virginia Beach and
Bernice Howard of Washington, D.C.; five brothers, Horace Lee Whitaker of
Virginia Beach, Joseph Whitaker of Pennsylvania, James Whitaker of Suffolk,
Raymond Whitaker of Norfolk, and Andrew Whitaker of Columbia, S.C.; 11
grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and a score of nieces, nephews, other
relatives and special friends. He was predeceased by a daughter, Beverly Ann
Whitaker ; his parents, Cornelia and Thurston Whitaker ; and his grandparents,
Henry Whitaker and Emily Hall Whitaker .

A funeral will be held at 1 p.m. Friday at The Way of The Cross ELIM, 2800
Chesapeake Blvd., Norfolk, by Bishop Hines. Interment will be in Calvary
Cemetery. The family will receive relatives and friends for remembrance and
visitation Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. at P.G. Thomasson Funeral Services Inc.,
Bonney Road Chapel, and all other times at 4120 Marblehead Drive, Virginia Beach.

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