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, ...
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Gabriel A. Ivan 
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
Read More »George M. Warren Jr. 
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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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