Visitation: 12:00p.m., Sunday, October 8, 2017
Location: Weymouth Funeral Home
Funeral Service: 1:00p.m., Sunday, October 8, 2017
Location: Weymouth Funeral Home Chapel
Interment: Peninsula Memorial Park
Hope Bartlett, 91, was born and raised on a farm in Windsor, N. C. She was valedictorian of her high school class, and attended High Point College at the age of 16. She met and married Navy Master Chief Petty Officer Lacy Delone Bartlett, her husband for 48 years.
Hope was a loving and faithful wife and mother, a long-time member and soprano in the choir at Second Presbyterian Church in Newport News and worked as a teachers’ aide at B. C. Charles Elementary School. She enjoyed reading, shopping, dancing, and working word puzzles. She was the steadfast rock of the family and will be truly missed by her family and friends.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Lacy D. Bartlett and her brother, James Worth Tarkington. She is survived by her children; Michael Bartlett and wife, Kim, Terri Osborne and husband, Mark, Lisa Ramsey and husband, Dennis; grandchildren, Christopher Osborne, Laura Page and husband, Charles, Caitlin Ramsey, Erin Ramsey, Patrick Ramsey and Sandi Caddell; her brother the Rev. Carroll Tarkington and his wife, Alma.
The family will receive friends on Sunday, October 8, 2017 from 12:00 Noon until 1:00p.m. at Weymouth Funeral Home with services to begin at 1:00 p.m.. Interment will follow at Peninsula Memorial Park. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the American Parkinson Disease Association. Arrangements by Weymouth Funeral Home.