On 29 May 1976, Myrta Coleman Shearwood died at St. Lukes Hospital, in Richmond, Henrico County, Virginia. She was 91, female, white, a resident of the City of Richmond at 1617 Claremont Avenue, ZIP code 23227, parents were Robert Coleman and Margaret Brizendine, late husband was Thomas Shearwood. Born in Virginia on 2 December 1884, retired employee at Miller & Rhoads, informant Miss Margaret Lipscomb. Cause of death pneumonia due to “suspect CVA & brain stem impaction”, death at 1:20 p.m. Burial at Forest Lawn Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. [Commonwealth of Virginia, Certificate of Death 76-016981.]

Information on Maggie Myrta Coleman from Myrle Theimer, letter of 7 December 1993 to Thomas Moore.