Gayle, Mr. Charles O. Sr., 64, of Richmond, a Vietnam War veteran, husband of Letha Deborah Pittman-Gayle. Hamm, Mr. Hedley B., 81, of Glen Allen, widower of Ann Lavern Hamm. Huband, Mr. Douglas Lee Sr., 77, a National Guard veteran, a retired supervisor at Philip Morris, husband of Marjorie Huband. James, Mrs. Alice P., 98, of Richmond, a homemaker, widow of Saunders James.

Rose “Reba” Mehfoud Oley would open up her house every Thanksgiving and Christmas. “We’d have 60 to 70 people in the house—people I’d never seen before,“ recalled Mark A. Oley, the youngest of her seven children. “She would send us to go pick these people up. Her kindness reached beyond the city limits.“ She would invite the homeless, people without their families for the holidays, old friends and people needing friends.

Alonso, Mr. Francisco, 90, of Richmond, husband of Sarah Alcover Alonso. Carter, Mrs. Pearl, 75, of Goochland, widow of Samuel Carter. Condyles, Mrs. Meriwether Allen, 74, of Richmond, a volunteer at the Red Cross and Hunter Holmes McGuire Veterans Affairs Hospital, widow of Nicholas C. Condyles. Conrad , Mr. William C., 88, of Richmond, an Army veteran, a retired engineer, widower of Barbara Gambrill Conrad.

During the day-to-day drama in his courtroom, Judge Robert Bruce Spencer Jr. would peer over half-frame reading glasses as he heard cases from speeding tickets to landlord-tenant disputes. “When those glasses would slide to the tip of his nose, lawyers and defendants knew there was going to be trouble,“ said his son, Robert Bruce Spencer III of Powhatan County.

Akers, Mrs. Genevieve S., 88, of Chesterfield, widow of Olin F. Akers. Ash, Mr. Dale Edward, 50, of Richmond. Beckman, Mr. Frank Samuel, 88, of Richmond, a World War II Army veteran, a professor emeritus at Brooklyn College, where he was founder and former chairman of the computer and information science department, widower of Shirley Beckman.

Joseph Wiseman, an actor who played the sinister scientist and title character Dr. No in the first James Bond feature film, has died. He was 91.

In 1976, William Alfred “Bill” Galloway and his wife, Mary Ann Pettit Galloway, bought the small Virginia Diner Inc. with adjacent gift shop and motel by the side of U.S. 460 in Wakefield. The diner, a converted railroad car with two additions, “leaked like a sieve at the additions when it rained,“ said their daughter, Christine Epperson of Ivor.

Robert E. Snead Sr., a retired pressroom manager who worked for Richmond Newspapers for 44 years, died Tuesday after suffering from Parkinson’s disease for many years. He was 80. Mr. Snead, of Manakin-Sabot, started in newspapering in 1950, when his father got him a position as an apprentice pressman. Mr. Snead’s father worked for the Richmond Times-Dispatch for 52 years as a pressman, and six of Mr. Snead’s uncles worked for the paper at one time or another.

Some people are born to be stars, and then there are others whose dedication and generosity make them famous within their community. That was how loved ones and fellow thespians described James Joseph “Jay” McCullough, a well-known actor, singer and director in Richmond’s performing-arts scene. He died Saturday of lung cancer at age 61.

Adkins, Mrs. Edna “Bea” Allen, of Richmond, widow of Leon Adkins. Belcher, Ms. Shelby L., 50, of Richmond, formerly of Washington, a health-care technician. Bozard, Mrs. Doris F., 87, of Midlothian, a homemaker, wife of Louis R. Bozard. Brooks, Mrs. Lucille Nora, 93, of Richmond, a retired statistician with the Department of the Navy, widow of William “Clyde” Brooks.

The father of the late “Meet the Press” moderator Tim Russert, the subject of best-seller ‘Big Russ & Me,“ has died in Buffalo, NY. He was 85.

When Upton Scott “Jake” Martin Jr. got up in the morning, there were hardly enough hours to fit in all he wanted to do. He devoted at least eight hours to his work as senior vice president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, where he was in charge of check collections, billing and equipment, money, printing and supplies, as well as data processing and planning.

Dr. Stephen M. Ayres was one of those guys who could have excelled at anything. He chose medicine, and communities worldwide are the better for it. Dr. Ayres, the former dean of the Medical College of Virginia, died Saturday in Newport News. He was 79. He was the dean of MCV from 1985 to 1993, his tenure smoothly spanning that of two college presidents. Among many accomplishments, he oversaw a massive curriculum reform, then led an internal restructuring that changed the way the school taught medicine.

With 14 critically acclaimed novels and four short-story collections to his credit, author Henry William Hoffman should have been a literary giant, his fans said, but he never found mass-market fame. “Bill Hoffman was probably Virginia’s least-known best writer—an author recognized by his peers for his tremendous talent—who has not received the public recognition his writing deserved,“ said Sandra G. Treadway, the librarian of Virginia. “He gave a number of well-received book talks at the library. He captured beautifully the sense of place found in rural areas and created complex, believable characters.“

Richmond native Lindsey Cabell Claiborne, an accountant of long standing in La Jolla, Calif., who kept family ties in his hometown, died Saturday. He was 94. After earning a law degree from the University of Virginia in 1938, Mr. Claiborne came home and began a nearly three-year stint practicing here. He then spent five years in the U.S. Naval Reserve, rising from a commission as an ensign to commander. During World War II, he was wounded at Guam and was awarded the Bronze Star and a Purple Heart.