PEARISBURG â A Giles County man who three years ago led a home invasion that turned fatal for one of the would-be robbers asked last week for leniency for his younger co-defendants, requesting that a judge âplace the burden on me.â
David Joseph Cecil, 51, then was sentenced to serve 43 years in prison, with decades more time behind bars suspended.
Cecil, who said he was in poor health and whose attorney said any lengthy prison term could effectively become a life sentence, drew 35 years for the deadly home invasion â a Jan. 3, 2018, attempt to rob a neighbor who he thought had money and drugs.
Obituaries » Grace Marie Campbell Wheat Grace Marie Campbell Wheat, 71, of Culpeper and formerly of Aiken, S.C., passed away peacefully on December 28, 2020, at Culpeper Health & Rehabilitation Center.
She was born January 14, 1949, in Alexandria, to the late Joseph Cecil and Mary Thorpe Campbell.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by the love of her life for 21 years, William H. âBillâ Wheat, and her companion, John Strode.
Grace was raised in Fauquier County and graduated from Fauquier High School in 1967. She received a silver bracelet from Fauquier Hospital when she was 16 in recognition of 763 hours of volunteer work as a candy striper at the hospital. After graduation, Grace went on to complete the LPN program through the University of Virginia and then entered the UVA School of Nursing. Her love of the nursing profession took her South to Humana Hospital in Augusta, Ga., where she was honored by the Georgia Hospital Association as a nurse