Desta Bernice Shaw
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July 12, 1939 — December 11, 2025 Desta Bernice Shaw (née McDowell)—known to family and early friends as Bernice (she didn't care for her first name), and to all after college as Desta or "Dee"—passed quietly and peacefully in her sleep at home in Chesapeake, Virginia, on December 11, 2025, from...
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