[VAcourier] Obituary for Betty Ann Burkett Chiesa

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OBITUARY  (Thursday 3/27 in Daily Press)
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>Betty Ann Burkett Chiesa ("key-'ay-zuh"), born August 27, 1924 in
>Iroquois, WV, died Good Friday, March 21, 2008. She came to Newport News
>in 1942 to work in the shipyard during WW II. She met Aldo Chiesa at a
>USO dance, and they married May 1945. 
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>She was preceded in death by her parents The Rev. Peter Samuel & Hattie
>Belle (Rucker) Burkett; husband, Aldo (d '1979); daughter, Cara Rose;
>sisters, Eva Eileen Taft and Samuel Marie McCarty; and grandson, Peter
>Samuel Hogg.
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>She was a graduate of Martinsville High School and Roanoke Business
>College. She retired from Fort Eustis Personnel. She was a deeply
>committed lifelong member of the Methodist Church and many of its
>organizations in and beyond her congregation. Since 1985 she worked
>tirelessly to enlist support throughout the peninsula for the Henry Fork
>Center which assists rural children in Virginia. She dearly loved the
>social life at her "new home", the Hidenwood Retirement Community.
>She is survived by a daughter and four sons: Toni Chiesa Hogg and
>husband, Paul (Peter) of Gloucester Point; Marc Leon Chiesa and wife,
>Carol of Sugar Grove, Il; A. David Chiesa of Williamsburg; Alfred Joseph
>Chiesa and wife, Ginger of Newport News; Milo Burkett Chiesa of Las
>Vegas, NV; two sisters, Jean Rose Eltringham and husband, John (Jae) and
>Erva Lynette Shifflett and husband Randolph (Punch); and a
>brother-in-law, Kingsley A. Taft and his wife, Nancy; eleven
>grandchildren John Hogg, David Chiesa, Angelica Chiesa Riski, Tony
>Chiesa, Donna Chiesa, Joseph A. Chiesa, Kristin Chiesa, Michael Chiesa,
>Ginny Chiesa, A. Joseph Chiesa, Brandon Chiesa; and nine
>great-grandchildren Caitlin Chiesa, Elizabeth Chiesa, Kelsi Chiesa,
>Xavier Nguyen, Jed Nguyen, Angelica Chiesa, Jacob Riski, Magalea Chiesa,
>Virginia Chiesa.
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>A memorial service will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, March 29 at
>Christ United Methodist Church, The Rev. Dr. Clyde M. DeLoach
>officiating. A reception will follow. 
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>In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to Henry Fork Service
>Center P.O. Box 888 Rocky Mount VA 24151 or Christ United Methodist
>Church 133 Deep Creek Road Newport News VA 23606.