Fairfax County author Beth Mitchell passed away on February 1, 2009, in
Honey Brook, Pennsylvania (about half way between Lancaster and
Philadelphia), at the Tel Hai Retirement Community were she and husband
Myles moved to in 2008.  Among her many works were  Beginning at a White
Oak: Patents and Northern Neck Grants of Fairfax County, Virginia;
Fairfax County in 1760, an Interpretive Historical Map; and Fairfax
County Road Orders, 1749-1800. She also indexed court records of Fairfax
County, abstracted claims of Fairfax County residents for Civil War
Losses, and much more. 
 
  There will be  a memorial service there for Beth on Friday, February
6 , 2009. The viewing is at 10 am that morning, with the memorial
service in the Chapel at 11 am.  
 
 Tel Hai Retirement Community's address is 1200 Tel Hai Circle, Honey
Brook, Pennsylvania 19344 (telephone 610-273-9333). Driving directions
may be found online at
http://www.telhai.org/~telhai/pages/index.php?pID=63 
 
You can send condolences to her husband at the retirement community's
address in the paragraph above.
 
Her contributions to northern Virginia research are legendary. It is
expected that an obituary will appear in this Wednesday's edition of the
Washington Post. 
 
 
 
 
 
 


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