Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1936-2014
Archie Campbell Berkeley, Richmond lawyer, is dead / He practiced more than 60 years
Monday, November 1, 1999
Archie Campbell Berkeley, a Richmond attorney for more than 60 years, died Sunday. He was 90.
Mr. Berkeley, who grew up in the Fan District, was a 1933 graduate of the T.C. Williams School of Law at the University of Richmond and practiced general law until 1996. At the time of his retirement, he was practicing with Berkeley & DeGaetani, which he joined in 1982.
He earned an undergraduate degree from the University of Richmond in 1930 and was a member and
former president of the Boatwright Society.
From 1940 to 1954, he was a member of the City Democratic Committee and at one time was chairman. In 1948, Mr. Berkeley was the secretary of the state delegation for the Democratic National Convention at which Harry S. Truman was nominated for president. In 1952, he was elected to the Third District Democratic Committee.
A longtime trustee at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, he was a former chairman of the Episcopal Parish Council of Richmond. In addition, Mr. Berkeley was a longtime executive committee member of the Robert E. Lee Council, Boy Scouts of America. In his youth, Mr. Berkeley had attained the rank of Eagle Scout.
After he was admitted to the bar, he founded the firm of Berkeley and
Puller with James Bransford Puller Jr., a childhood friend and classmate at the University of Richmond. The firm dissolved about 1981, when the two men went into semi-retirement.
In 1982, when his son, Archie Campbell Berkeley Jr., founded the Berkeley and DeGaetani law firm, the two friends joined the practice and worked together again until Puller's death in 1989.
Mr. Campbell's survivors include his wife, Jeanette Haydon Berkeley; two sons, Archie Campbell Berkeley Jr. of Richmond, Thomas Haydon Berkeley of Lynchburg; and two daughters, Sallie Berkeley Wendt of Chesterfield and Jane Berkeley Barton of Fairfax.
A funeral will be held Tuesday at noon at St. Mark's Episcopal Church, 520 N. Boulevard. Burial in Hollywood cemetery will be private.
Physician Mickael Kannan dies at 61 / He had practiced at Pediatric Center
Wednesday, October 27, 1999
Dr. Mickael M. Kannan, a Richmond pediatrician for more than three decades who headed the pediatric departments of several area hospitals, died Sunday after a battle with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Lou Gehrig's disease. He was 61.
Dr. Kannan retired from his practice at Pediatric Center in January 1998, several months after he had been diagnosed.
"He worked until he absolutely had to quit," daughter Teresa Kannan McRoberts said during an interview for a 1998 Times-Dispatch article on her father. McRoberts and her husband, Scot, sold their house and moved in with her father to care for him.
Dr. Kannan specialized in infectious diseases, allergies and children diagnosed with attention deficit disorder, but he was also proud of his low-key work with families with an alcoholic parent.
The oldest of two sons born to Lebanese immigrants, he settled with his family in Fuquay-Varina, N.C., where they lived above the family-operated dry goods store.
Dr. Kannan attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill for his undergraduate and medical degrees. He came to Richmond as an intern in pediatrics at Virginia Commonwealth University's Medical College of Virginia and never left. He later served as a resident, fellow, professor and division chairman at MCV.
He eventually left the full-time faculty but frequently lectured medical students and house staff physicians. Over the years, he also served as chairman of the department of pediatrics at Richmond Memorial Hospital and was founder and chairman of the department of pediatrics at
Henrico Doctors' Hospital. He was a former president of the Richmond Academy of Pediatrics.
In 1976, he went into private practice at Pediatric Center with Dr. Frederick Rahal, a longtime friend.
"He was always soft-spoken, a nonwordy guy," Rahal said during an interview for the 1998 article. "He's one of those guys who, whenever he spoke, everybody listened."
After Dr. Kannan became ill, families of his patients began raising funds for an endowment in his honor at MCV. An annual teaching award in the School of Pediatrics now bears his name, as does a student scholarship.
Dr. Kannan was the widower of Jacquelyn Ray Pyles Kannan.
Survivors include his fiancée, Diane Moxley; two sons, David K. Kannan and Richard J. Kannan; a daughter, Teresa K. McRoberts, all of Richmond; and a brother, Phillip M. Kannan of Kingston, Tenn.
A funeral will be held Wednesday at 1 p.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church. Burial will be in Westhampton Memorial Park.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Kannan Community Pediatrician Teaching Award and Student Scholarship, P.O. Box 980022, MCV/VCU, Richmond, VA 23298-0022.
