Hometown Legends
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Amedeo Obici
The story of Amedeo Obici (Ah-may-day-o O-bee-chee) is one born of an Italian immigrant’s hard work and ambition.
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Bobby Norfleet
Bobby Norfleet calls Suffolk his hometown but is truly home on the race track.
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Charlie Byrd
Charlie Byrd was born in Suffolk and raised in the northern community of Chuckatuck. Inspired by local musicians who congregated at his father's general store, Byrd began studying the guitar at age 10.
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Della H. Raney
Raney was the first African-American nurse commissioned as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps (ANC) during World War II.
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Hope Spivey
Suffolk native Hope Spivey competed in gymnastics on the national and international level for 11 years, capping her career as a member of the U. S. Olympic team.
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Judith Godwin
Suffolk's own, Judith Godwin, is a renowned artist who's Abstract Expressionism has won her critical acclaim.
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LaSallie "Sallie" Corbell Pickett
Chuckatuck native, LaSalle Pickett outlived her husband, General George E. Pickett, by 5 decades, spending much of her widowhood as an author and lecturer on the Civil War.
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Lewis Powell, Jr.
An Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, Powell was known as a master of compromise and consensus building.
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Michela English
Michela English retired in June 2005 after more than 3 terms as a member of Virginia's Sweet Briar College (SBC) Board of Directors.
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Mills E. Godwin
The only Governor elected twice by popular vote, General Assembly and as Lieutenant Governor.