Obituaries

Elizabeth Fox Bolton, 94, of Manassas Virginia, formerly of Clinton, passed away on August 8, 2017 at Novant Health UVA Haymarket Medical Center in Haymarket, Virginia. She was born to Thomas Wilson Fox and Elizabeth Strong Fox in Jeff, Kentucky. The Fox family moved from Kentucky to Tennessee in 1931 where they lived on the family farm on Edgemoor Road where the Centennial Golf Course is currently located. The family moved from the farm to Clinton in support of the war effort. She graduated from Clinton High School where she was voted “Most Popular Girl”. She was an avid bowler and won numerous bowling titles and championships. She was a two-time Virginia State Doubles Champion and participated in over 45 WIBC Tournaments held throughout the United States. Elizabeth was a member of the Manassas Baptist Church.

In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her husbands, 2nd Lt. Sherrill R. Williams, Walter R. Brummett and Earl A. Bolton; her son Walter R. “Bobby” Brummett, Jr.; her sisters Dorothy Margrave, Hazel Brown, Bessie Smith and Bertha Jenkins; her brothers William and Henry Fox.


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John Sidney Hutton IV, age 84, lifelong resident of Manassas passed away on Sunday, August 13, 2017 in Burke, VA.

He was born on July 2, 1933 in Warrenton, VA to the late John Sidney Hutton III and Alice (Payne) Hutton. Mr. Hutton retired in 1991 from AT&T as an System Technician. He was a charter member of Manassas St. Thomas United Methodist Church and Greater Manassas Volunteer Rescue Squad.


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John Sidney Hutton IV, age 84, lifelong resident of Manassas passed away on Sunday, August 13, 2017 in Burke, VA.

He was born on July 2, 1933 in Warrenton, VA to the late John Sidney Hutton III and Alice (Payne) Hutton. Mr. Hutton retired in 1991 from AT&T as an System Technician. He was a charter member of Manassas St. Thomas United Methodist Church and Greater Manassas Volunteer Rescue Squad.


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John Sidney Hutton IV, age 84, lifelong resident of Manassas passed away on Sunday, August 13, 2017 in Burke, VA.

He was born on July 2, 1933 in Warrenton, VA to the late John Sidney Hutton III and Alice (Payne) Hutton. Mr. Hutton retired in 1991 from AT&T as an System Technician. He was a charter member of Manassas St. Thomas United Methodist Church and Greater Manassas Volunteer Rescue Squad.


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A tornado touched down on Friday near the Prince William County line.

The wind storm measured EF-0 and was on the ground for two minutes between 6:08 and 6:10 p.m. Friday, August 11. It cut a path of damage about a mile long, 100 yards wide at Broad Run in Fauquier County near the Chapman Mill Historic Site.


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Editors note: This is the first in a series of two stories about Betty Covington and John Harper, for which Covington-Harper Elementary School is named.

Betty Covington is looking forward to the opening of a new elementary school that will bear her name.