Florence Tompkins

Florence Newbill Tompkins, age 99, passed away Sunday, March 6, 2016 in the Riverside Health and Rehab Center. She was born on May 24, 1916 in Scottsburg, Va. and was a daughter of the late Herbert Pryor Newbill and Etta Hester Snead Newbill. Florence was a 1932 graduate of Scottsburg High School and a 1939 graduate of the Danville Memorial Hospital School of Nursing. She was a registered nurse until her retirement in 1981. She was a member of the hospital retiree’s club and Ladies Benevolent Society. She was a former volunteer at the hospital, former member of the Business and Professional Women’s Club and an active member of First Baptist Church where she was a member of the Lucille Rumney’s Sunday School Class, Women On Missions, Triple L. Club and Homemaker’s Club. On August 25, 1938 she married Joseph Richard Tompkins who predeceased her on January 23, 1996. She was predeceased by a brother and eight sisters. Florence is survived by a daughter, Florence Ann Grigg and husband, Bill of Richmond, Va.; a granddaughter Whitney Grigg Hawkins and her husband, Adam of Richmond; four great-grandchildren, Zaylee, “Ace”, Buxton, and Harbour; a sister, Dorothy Watkins of Richmond and a number of nieces and nephews. Memorial services will be held Friday, March 11, 2016 at 12 noon at First Baptist Church with the Reverend John Carroll officiating. Private burial will be in Highland Burial Park.