GEORGE LITTLE

LITTLE, George Borum, age 84, died July 15, 2010. Born in Baltimore, Maryland, he was the son of John Calvin Little and Sarah Borum Little. Educated in the Baltimore and Richmond Public Schools, he attended Hampden-Sydney College prior to entering the U.S. Army in 1943. He served three years, the last of which in the Sulu Archipelago, Philippines. Following World War II, he graduated from the University of Virginia School of Law in 1949, where he was a member of Phi Delta Phi, Order of the Coif and Associate Editor of the Virginia Law Review. After serving as law clerk for the Honorable Morris A. Soper, U.S. Court of Appeals, 4th Judicial Circuit, he was recalled to service in the Korean War. A member of the U.S. Army Counterintelligence Corps, he was headquartered in Beppu, Japan. Practicing law for 57 years, he represented, among other other clients, the Richmond School Board in the School Integration suits and the School Consolidation case heard in the U.S. Supreme Court. Prior to his retirement in 2006, he concentrated in the area of estate planning and trust administration. He was a member of the Richmond Bar, the Virginia State Bar and the American and Inter-American Bar Associations. A member of Centenary United Methodist Church since 1939, he had served as Chairman of the Trustee Board and Chairman of the Official Board. Survivors include his wife of 53 years, Anne Beazley Little; and three children and their spouses, George Borum Little Jr. and Deborah Shaner Little, Amanda Little Surgner and William Hildebrandt Surgner Jr., and Wyatt Larkin Little and Jennifer Bennett Little. There are nine grandchildren, George Borum Little III, Connor Beale Little, Anne Walker Surgner, William Reeves Hildebrandt Surgner, Kathryn Nicholas Surgner, George Tucker Surgner, Ruth Sheridan Little, Nora Flanagan Little and Anne Larkin Little. A memorial service will be held at the Westminster Canterbury Sara Belle November Theater at 2 p.m. Monday, July 19. In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the Oliver Hill Scholarship Fund at the University of Virginia School of Law Foundation, 580 Massie Rd., Charlottesville, Va. 22903, to Centenary United Methodist Church, 411 E. Grace St., Richmond, Va. 23219, or to Westminster Canterbury, Parsons Health Care Center, Memory Support Program, 1600 Westbrook Ave., Richmond, Va. 23227.


This obituary was originally published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch.