Irma Weeks Guy

Irma W. Guy

Irma Weeks Guy, 101, of Albemarle County, passed away on Friday, January 8, 2010, at The Cedars Nursing Home as a result of complications from a fall in her home.

She enjoyed 40 years of living with her daughter and family in the Tidewater and Charlottesville areas of Virginia.

Irma was born on January 18, 1908, in Kinston, North Carolina, as was the second child of Orin and Izora Weeks of Swansboro, North Carolina. Her mother was a direct descendant of Mary Edward Hill, owner of Cedar Point Plantation, which is now the town of Cedar Point, North Carolina. Her father was a direct descendant of the founder of Swansboro, North Carolina, once known as "Weeks Wharf".

As a child, she and her siblings attended St. Paul's Episcopal Boarding School. Irma's mother died when she was 10 and her father later remarried Mary Munsey and the family moved to Swansboro. After graduating from high school, Irma attended Mitchell College in Statesville, North Carolina, graduating with a certificate in teaching and a certificate for bookkeeping, typing and shorthand.

She moved to Norfolk, Virginia, in the 1930's and became a bookkeeper in the Audit Department of Norfolk Bank of Commerce which is today known as Bank of America.

She met and married Walter Burks in 1942 and daughter Jane Burks was born in 1943. Irma became a widow 1957, but later remarried Edward A. Guy of Newport News, Virginia, in 1969. Irma lived continuously with her daughter's family after Edward's death in 1972.

She was a founding member of the Tidewater Horse and Pony Club, a member of the Norfolk Business and Professional Womens Club, an active member and past Worthy Matron of the Eastern Star, Virginia Chapter 22, a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) in both Norfolk and Shadwell, Virginia, and a member of The Senior Center in Albemarle County.

Irma moved to her Albemarle County home in 1984 with her daughter's family and continued to work part-time as a bookkeeper for Hazel Eastham dress shop and Charlottesville Physical Therapy.

Survivors include her daughter, Jane Hunt and son-in-law, Ronnie Hunt, of Albemarle County; grandson, Christopher Morgan of Albemarle County; granddaughter, Cindy Bianco and her husband Jim Bianco, of Troy, Virginia; great-granddaughter, Abbie Morgan and great-grandson, Sam Morgan, both of Albemarle County; three step-grandchildren, Ronald Hunt, Darlene Hunt and Gilbert Hunt of Albemarle County; and step-son, John Guy of Newport News, Virginia.

Irma was preceded in death by her mother and father; sisters, Dee Williams and Mary Bell Williams of Swansboro, North Carolina; and brother, Haywood Weeks of Kinston, North Carolina; her two husbands; and stepson, Joe Guy of Newport News, Virginia.

A graveside memorial service will be held at 1 p.m. Wednesday, January 13, 2010, at Monticello Memory Gardens.

Friends may sign the guest book at www.hillandwood.com.


This obituary was originally published in the Daily Progress.