 
W4VAH 
MATHEWS - William Joyner Harden, 76, died
peacefully on Monday, Jan. 18, 2010, at Riverside Walter Reed
Hospital surrounded by his loving family and friends.
He was born
in Norfolk, Va., on March 4, 1933, to the late Lillian Joyner Harden
and Hersey Melton Harden. He was a 1951 graduate of Granby High
School in Norfolk and attended the Virginia Polytechnic Division of
the College of William and Mary (now Old Dominion University). He
was an amateur radio operator (Ham) for more than 60 years with the
call letters of 'W4VAH' and was a member of several radio clubs. He
proudly served in the United States National Guard, was employed by
WTAR-TV as an engineer and later as Chief Engineer at WVEC-TV. He
left that position to spend the next 25 years of his career as an
Electronics Technician at the U.S. Naval Air Rework Facility,
Norfolk, Va., retiring in 1988.
In 1997, he realized his dream
when he moved to his Mathews, Va., waterfront home, where he loved
boating, fishing and growing his own oysters. He was a member of the
Mathews Memorial Library, and the Mathews Yacht Club.
Left to
cherish his memory are his devoted wife of 48 years, Mildred Fisher
Harden; a son, Donald William Harden and wife, Mary of Newport News;
a daughter, Patricia Harden Warren and husband, Wesley of
Chesapeake; three grandchildren whom he adored, Christine Harden
Brown of Kingston, Tenn., Rachel Elizabeth Kistler and Megan Lynn
Warren of Chesapeake; and two great-grandchildren, Kayla and Riley
Brown of Kingston, Tenn.; cousins, nieces and nephews, and a host of
friends.
A memorial service celebrating Bill's life will be held
at 1 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 23, at Central United Methodist Church, 121
Church Street, Mathews.
The family wishes to express their
sincere appreciation to the nurses, doctors and staff in the
Emergency Room and Intensive Care Unit of Riverside Walter Reed
Hospital, Gloucester, Va., for their compassionate care of Bill
during his recent illness.
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KD4FN
SMITHFIELD - James Lewis Jackson III, of Kenmere
Lane, left his earthly home to live in his eternal home Saturday,
Nov. 28, 2009, at Sentara Obici Hospital.
He was a native of New York City and retired in
1990, as senior court clerk. He was a founding member of Western
Tidewater Radio Association and served as trustee and treasurer of
Central Church of Christ in Smithfield.
He is survived by his wife, Martha (Cindy) Ford
Evans Jackson of the home; daughters, Lorna A Rembert (Herbert), and
Jeannette L. Thompson, both of Bronx, N.Y.; son, Julian D. Evans
(Suzanne), sisters, Virginia J. Handy of Malden, Mass., and
Jacqueline Herring of Hampton; seven grandchildren; and 15
great-grandchildren.
Public viewing will be from 4 to 7 p.m., and
family visitation from 6 to 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 3, at Shivers
Funeral Chapel. Celebration Service will be noon Friday, Dec. 4, at
Church of Christ, 204 South Church Street, Smithfield, VA. Burial
will be in Albert Horton Jr. Veterans' Cemetery, Suffolk, Va.
Shivers Funeral Chapel is in charge of
arrangements.
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W4RGN 
It
is with heavy heart that I must report to you the passing of Jarvis
Hearn, Sr. W4RGN.
Jarvis slipped from the mortal coil on the afternoon of
October 21, 2008.
Jarvis was an active
member in the early years of the WTRA along with his son, Jarvis Jr.
W4VWH. Jarvis continued
to operate on the air and recently celebrated his 100th birthday,
and as such enjoyed being among the ranks of the oldest active
amateur radio operators in the country and indeed, I suspect, the
whole world.
A life celebration
service was held at Colonial Funeral Home in Smithfield on
October 24. The WTRA
sent a beautiful basket of fall flowers to the service and was
represented by ten of its members along with several other hams from
neighboring areas. The
service was conducted by Jarvis Jr. During the service Jarvis
Jr. provided a brief history of his dad’s life starting with growing
up on a farm in Virginia, beginning a career as a welder at both
Newport News and Norfolk Naval Shipyards, and moving on to many jobs
in various locations including South Carolina, Montana, Kansas,
(then back to Virginia), Panama, Florida, California and finally
again back to Virginia.
Jarvis Sr. was described as being an expert pilot and as
having a passion for amateur radio. Jarvis’s grandson Dana Hearn
also spoke of his experiences while growing up and spending summers
with his grandfather.
Jarvis Sr. was part
of the early Emergency Radio services in Hampton.
He talked the director, who was not a ham, into buying the early 2
meter rigs for the service. They were about 18 to 20" high and
about a foot wide and had an extending antenna (like rabbit
ears) and had two crystal frequencies available, all of this of
course in AM.
He loved running
phone patches for service men. He would spend hours at night
doing this for those at sea and those at the South
Pole.
Jarvis was a very
active member of the South CARS Net which currently has over 4000
members. His net
membership number was 0003.
In 2007 he received the SCARS Outstanding Member
Award.
In looking around the
internet I found the following in the Bulgarian National Radio DX
Program Newsletter “Jarvis Hearn, Sr. W4RGN, celebrated his 100th
birthday on March 19, 2008. In 1949, Hearn discovered amateur radio
which became “an all-consuming passion then and now.”
Congratulations and best wishes from Radio Bulgaria,
Jarvis!”
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 KF4SEP
July 22, 2006
The
Virginian-Pilot
SUFFOLK - A
man died Friday morning after his vehicle flipped north of
downtown.
Police
identified the victim as Reginald T. Bland, 46, of the 13000 block
of Wilson Court.
The incident
happened at 7:26 a.m. on
Godwin Boulevard, Va. 10, north of the Reid's Ferry Bridge, said Lt.
D.J. George, a police spokeswoman.
Bland's Jeep
Cherokee was traveling south when it ran off the road and flipped
several times, George said. Bland was thrown from the vehicle and
died later at Sentara Obici Hospital, she said. +++
In the morning hour of July
21, 2006, our husband, father, son, brother, uncle and friend was
called home to glory. Reginald 'Reggie' T. Bland was the eighth born
child of Charles B. Bland and Mae A. Copeland Bland. He was a 1979
honor graduate of John Yeates High School and attended Norfolk State
University for two years and majored in drafting and mechanical
drawings. Reggie married Freda Slade on April 16, 1994, after a
friendship of five years. Reggie was preceded in death by his
maternal grandparents, Johnnie and Pattie Copeland; and paternal
grandparents, Thomas and Christina Jackson Bland and Sister Vernice
Bland. He leaves to cherish his memories, his wife, Freda Bland; two
daughters, Ebony Slade and Regine Bland; one son, Jerauld Slade; one
grandson, Jaden Wise; two granddaughters, Jerreal and Santeal Slade;
parents, Charles and Mae A. Bland; two brothers, Charles Bland Jr.
and Melvin Lee Bland; five sisters, Katherine Bland Ruffin, Betty
Bland Wilson (Virnest), Shirley Bland Simmons, Dorothy Bland Gamble
(Alfred) and Alice Bland Benn (Keith); a host of nieces and nephews,
great-nieces, great-nephews, cousins, other relatives and friends.
Funeral services at Little Zion Baptist Church with burial
at Oakland Cemetery in Chuckatuck, VA. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
KA4MKF
Ned Strickler
and his wife were killed in an auto accident on September 15, 2008
in North Dakota.
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