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Walter Herbert Morse, a retired attorney who served on school boards in Falls Church and Amherst County, died at his Amherst home on June 7. He was 90. A graduate of Princeton University and the University of Virginia law school, ...

Gabriel A. Ivan, a career army officer who went on to serve as general counsel at Lawyers Title Insurance Co. in Richmond, died May 29 in Roanoke. He was 91. A native of Jessup, Pa., Col. Ivan graduated in 1942 ...

Tazewell lawyer Kelly Noel Combs Necessary died Feb. 14 after a battle with breast cancer. She was 42. A 1990 graduate of James Madison University, she earned her law degree from the University of Richmond in 1994. She clerked in ...

Northern Virginia lawyer Thomas P. Mains Jr. died Jan. 17. He was 75. A graduate of Williams College, he earned his law degree from the Washington College of Law at American University then went into practice in Alexandria. Initially a ...

Bruce Montgomery Marshall, managing director of the Richmond law firm of DurretteBradshaw PLC, died Feb. 4 from cancer. He was 58. A descendant of U.S. Chief Justice John Marshall, Mr. Marshall was a graduate of St. Christopher’s School, the University ...

David C. Kohler, a law professor at the Southwestern University law school in Los Angeles and a former partner at Christian & Barton in Richmond, died Oct. 15 of colorectal cancer. He was 56. Mr. Kohler was born in Richmond ...

Benjamin A. Williams Jr., a retired judge of the Fifth Judicial Circuit and a veteran of World War II, died Jan. 16. He was 90. A native of Courtland, Judge Williams attended Virginia Tech and received his law degree from ...

George M. Warren Jr., a former state senator and longtime commonwealth’s attorney for the city of Bristol, died Jan. 12 Wellmont Hospice House after an illness of several months. He was 87. A native of Bristol, Sen. Warren was the ...

John A. MacKenzie, a retired federal judge who sat in Norfolk, died Jan. 1 in Portsmouth. He was 92. A native of Portsmouth, Judge MacKenzie received his undergraduate and law degrees from Washington and Lee University. He served as an ...

Robert J. O’Neill, a retired attorney in Front Royal, died Dec. 21. He was 81. Mr. O’Neill grew up in the Bronx, New York, during the Great Depression and earned a law degree from Fordham University in 1956 after serving ...