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Harry Frazier III, a lawyer with the Richmond office of Hunton & Williams, died Aug. 3 at the age of 69. Frazier had been with the firm since 1954. He specialized in public finance law. He was a graduate of ...

Thomas Edwin Collins, a retired Richmond lawyer who worked for the IRS, died July 6 at the age of 78. Collins served as a Naval officer during World War II, attended the University of Virginia and graduated from the University ...

Peyton Graham Bowman III, 68, a retired partner in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Reid & Priest, died of cancer July 3 at Rappahannock General Hospital in Kilmarnock. Bowman specialized in gas and electrical utilities and regularly appeared before ...

Frank Parker, a civil rights lawyer who worked on voting rights issues in Mississippi for 14 years, died July 10 of complications from an aortic aneurysm in Lexington. He was 57. He had been director of the Voting Rights Project ...

Former Lt. Gov. Henry E. Howell Jr., a Norfolk lawyer who vowed to “keep the big boys honest” in three unsuccessful campaigns for governor, died July 7. He was 76 and had battled cancer for several years. Howell attended the ...

Joan Waggoner Gibson died June 13 at her home in Afton after a long fight with ovarian cancer. She was 59 years old. Gibson had practiced in Virginia Beach, was past president of the Virginia Women’s Attorneys Association, and ran ...

James M. Morris of Arlington, a retired lawyer and businessman, died May 15 of heart failure at the age of 91. Morris was a native of Summitville, Ind., where he attended high school. He later worked as an efficiency engineer ...

Paul A. Holstein, a retired Lexington Circuit Court Judge, died April 23 in Stonewall Jackson Hospital. He was 89 years old. Before serving for 13 years as a circuit judge, he was mayor of Lexington and judge of the Lexington ...

Thomas Winfield Athey, a former York County juvenile and domestic relations judge and county attorney, died April 21 at the age of 73. He served as a juvenile and domestic relations judge from 1969 to 1974 and then worked as ...

William H. Martin Jr., a retired lawyer from Richmond, died May 2 after a brief illness. He was 78. He was a partner in several Richmond-area firms during his career, including Martin & Ryder, Martin & Ellison, and Gambill & ...