Allen B. Fine was a man in motion—except when he was fishing. When he wasn’t in the industrial surroundings of Virginia Bearings and Supply Co. as its president, he raced cars and sailboats, flew small planes and searched for thermals in sailplanes, enjoyed skiing and played tennis as often as five times a week. He was a co-founder of the Virginia Motor Sports Club and served as president for a year. He was a Porsche man, though he collected other classic race cars, including Alfa Romeo and Lotus, said his daughter, Allyn Fine Linas of Goochland County.

Louise Hope Pitt Miller, a camp director, photographer and retired teacher, was selfless to the last moments of her life, said her husband, Kenneth Cameron Miller III. Many people close to her did not know about her 15-year battle with cancer, he said. It wasn’t something she would talk about and burden people with, he said. “It’s amazing to me how many people had no idea that she had been sick,“ he said. “She was unselfish until the end.“

Tributes set in honor of blues musician Cephas A “Reflections of Life Celebration” service for John Dudley Cephas, offering musicians who knew the legendary Piedmont blues guitarist an opportunity to perform, will be held at noon Saturday in Bowling Green.

Dr. Jacques Recht was an acknowledged winemaking expert on two continents when he and his wife, Liliane, decided to retire and sail around the world on their 36-foot catamaran. The wind that brought them up the Chesapeake Bay and the Potomac River almost 30 years ago also was a favorable one for the Virginia wine industry, which had been crushed by the Civil War and had languished since Prohibition in the 1930s.

Service was his business. For 40 years, Nathaniel H. Reid Jr. worked in the hospitality profession for Colonial Williamsburg. He started working at the Williamsburg Inn as a bellman and rose to be superintendent of service. Among guests he and his bell staff of 12 served at the inn were tourists, presidents and foreign royalty. Mr. Reid died Saturday at 93 in his hometown of Williamsburg.

John B. Boatwright III relished a challenge. When Virginia’s Public Defender Commission established four regional offices in 2002, Mr. Boatwright became the first regional capital-murder defense attorney in the state, one of three lawyers in the Richmond regional office. “Since it was a state position, some other people didn’t want to apply because of the money,“ said his son, John B. Boatwright IV of Richmond. “He wasn’t concerned about that. It combined two things he loved most: an intellectual challenge and a chance to help people, especially people who couldn’t afford it. He was very happy in that position.“

Flora Crater ran for lieutenant governor in 1973 as an independent candidate. Flora Marina Trimmer Crater was born in an era of male-only voting and racial segregation.

Aubrey Lee Lucas was described by one Colonial Heights resident as someone who speaks his mind whether he stands alone or not. Mr. Lucas said in 1967 that he endeavored “to take a stand for the people . . . to speak out against idealistic and grandiose plans made in the belief that you have to do what’s fashionable . . . with an utter disregard for the wage earner and those of fixed income who can least afford such thinking.“

John A. Blackburn, whose 30-year tenure at the University of Virginia brought fundamental changes in admissions and financial-aid policies, died Tuesday. He was 67. Mr. Blackburn, known as “Jack,“ spent his entire career at the university working in the admissions office, serving as dean since 1985. He was the longest serving admissions dean in U.Va.‘s history.

Norman Oliver Walker, a journalist for The Associated Press for more than 30 years in Louisiana and Washington has died. Mr. Walker died Sunday at his Arlington County home. He was 96. His daughter, Andree Walker Lanser, said the cause of death had not been determined. Mr. Walker began his career with the AP in 1934 in New Orleans, where he helped cover the assassination of Huey Long. Mr. Walker later served as Baton Rouge correspondent and moved to the AP’s Washington bureau in 1943.

“When the State Department of Mental Health and Mental Retardation looks for a friend among the legislators [in the Virginia General Assembly] it looks to ‘Bunny’ Gunn,“ said a 1974 newspaper article by The Associated Press. Charles Wesley Gunn Jr., nicknamed Bunny by his sister when they were children, served in the House of Delegates from 1964 to 1978. He represented the 9th District, including the cities of Lexington, Buena Vista, and Bedford, and the counties of Rockbridge, Bedford and Franklin.

Chandler Homer Luckham was a full-time barber and taught himself to repair watches and clocks. Chandler Homer Luckham presided as Irvington’s mayor from 1968 to 1974, a time when the Town Council named the streets and passed a comprehensive zoning ordinance to control the town’s growth. Mr. Luckham, an 81-year-old retired barber and watchmaker, died Thursday at his Irvington home of complications of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

In the spring of 1992, forensics expert and crime writer Patricia Cornwell was moderator of a Richmond Forum panel discussion on DNA procedures. A large, elaborate model of a DNA molecule was a prop for the event. Heads turned when Catherine Keefe’s friend exclaimed, “You have one of those in your basement, don’t you?“ She did, indeed—a model built by her father, Dr. William E. Keefe, and later put on display at Virginia Commonwealth University’s Massey Cancer Center.

Flora Ward Vranian helped change Henrico County’s landscape through her leadership of the Westgate Garden Club. Flora Ward Vranian was born in Lunenburg County in 1922 in a place where “there wasn’t even a town,“ said her son, Alan Vranian of Warrenton. One of seven children, she moved to the Richmond area when she was 17 to find work and send money home to her mother. Her father had died when she was 12, and the hardships of the Depression haunted her in her later years, her son said.

Granville Lee “Hank” Bilyeu, sports editor of The Hopewell News, began a 50-year career at the newspaper while serving in the Army at Fort Lee. Rising from reporter to news editor and managing editor, the Krum, Texas, native later found his niche as sports editor. He was an unabashed fan of local teams, sending flowers to the girls’ players for a good game or buying dinner for the boys.