THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
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DATE: Friday, April 5, 1996 TAG: 9604050450
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James Ashby III, 50, a Fredericksburg attorney, died Thursday, April 4, at his home.
Mr. Ashby, born in Washington, was a Fredericksburg resident most of his life. He was a 1968 graduate of the University of Richmond and a 1973 graduate of T.C. Williams School of Law. He was admitted to the bar in 1973. He began his practice with Russell H. Roberts in 1973 and has been with the local firm since then. He succeed his father, James Ashby Jr. and his grandfather, C. O'Conor Goolrick, as special trial counsel for the Virginia Department of Transportation in many areas of the state. Mr. Ashby had been a member of the Virginia Bar Association since 1974 and represented the 15th Judicial Circuit as a member of the council of the Virginia State Bar and was a member of its Legal Ethics Committee.
Survivors include his wife, Louise Dickey Ashby; three sons, James Ashby IV, Turner Dickey Ashby and O'Conor Goolrick Ashby II, all of the home; his mother, Frances Ashby Rowell of Fredericksburg; brother, O'Conor Goolrick Ashby of Fredericksburg; and two sisters, Virginia Turner Ashby of Fredericksburg, and Nancy Ashby McNeill of Columbia, S.C.
A funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. George's Episcopal Church with the Rev. Charles R. Sydnor officiating. Burial will be at Oak Hill Cemetery.
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