Lena Margaret Lawson, 80, peacefully went home to be with the Lord on August 24, 2019 at Inova Fairfax Hospital. She was born on October 3, 1938 in Loudon County, Virginia. She lived in Manassas Park, Virginia for over 50 years. Lena not only loved her family, friends and four-legged furry friends she also loved gardening, feeding the birds, cooking and baking. Lena was an amazing mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, sister, aunt and friend.

Survivors include her three sons: Walter Lawson Jr., Eddie Lawson and his wife Cari and Gary Lawson and his wife Melissa; four grandchildren: Heather Lawson and her fiancé Terry Breslin, Andrew Lawson and his wife Stephanie, Jason Lawson and Haley Lawson; six great grandchildren: Christopher Lawson, Vanessa Breslin, Logan Turley, Patrick Lawson, Natalie Breslin and Aimee Lawson; numerous other family, friends and friends whom she called family and her three fur grandbabies, Belle, Tiger and Toby. She is preceded in death by her loving husband of 50 years, Walter Lawson Sr.; her parents, Hunton and Madie Leonard; her three brothers, Ernest Leonard, Howard Leonard, and Robert Leonard and her sister Nancy Lawson.


Marco A. Rosa November 21, 1967 – August 09,2019 Former Veteran/Us Navy/Chief Petty Officer Son of Nicolas and Olinda Rosa Husband of Yngler Rosa Father of Nicholas, Alexander, Marco, Sebastian & Santiago.


Merion Kenneth Hall, 74, of Winston-Salem NC, went home to be with the Lord, Saturday, August 24th, 2019 surrounded by his loving family.

Merion was born April 2, 1945 in Buncombe County, NC to the late Vance and Ollie Hall. He is survived by his wife and love of his life Mary Hall who have been married for 50 wonderful years. He was a Vietnam Veteran serving in the US Air Force and then worked for Verizon Telecommunications as a Senior Sales Engineer where he retired after 34 years.


Ellen "Ellie" Adams, 69, of Lake Ridge, Virginia died August 19, 2019 at Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center.

She was a secretary/bookkeeper for two government agencies and a car dealership. She was also a "Jill" of all trades to her husband and parents. She was also a proud member of: Junior Army/Navy Girls Organization "JANGO" in High School. She graduated from Jefferson High School in Fairfax County, VA and attended the Medical College of Virginia.


Jeannie was born in Southeast Washington, DC on October 20, 1943 – the daughter of John and Ernestine Stipp.

She lived on Yorktown Road in Bethesda, MD until graduation from Bethesda-Chevy Chase High School in 1961. For two years in the late 1950s, her father’s employer (York Air Conditioning) relocated her family in the Philadelphia area (Drexel Hill, PA). A neighbor, Dick Clark, regularly gave Jeannie tickets to appear on a new television show, Bandstand, where she danced to and enjoyed the teen sensations of that era. Jeannie was a life-long fan of Elvis Presley and, later on, of Alan Jackson, and Scottie McCreery.


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