Gilbert Rumley "Gil" Asby Sr., of the 6400 block of Powder Horn Drive, died July 3, 1995, after a year long fight with brain cancer. Mr. Asby was a native of North Carolina and had resided in Norfolk for the past 41 Years. During the past 40 years he had been involved in both retail and wholesale furniture businesses, and he recently retired from a wholesale partnership with his son Gilbert R. Asby Jr. Mr. Asby was a member and the senior warden of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Norfolk; a member and past president of the Norfolk Chapter of the Cosmopolitan Club International and a member of its Beacon Club. He was also a member of the Elizabeth Lodge No. 34 and the Scottish Rite Bodies of the Khedive Temple of the Shrine. He was an Army veteran of World War II during which he served in the European theater of war. Survivors include his wife, the former Virginia Swain Woodley; a daughter, Alice Woodley Asby of Norfolk; two sons, Gilbert R. "Bert" Asby Jr. and his wife, Carrie Savage Asby of Richmond, and Thomas Edgar Asby and his wife, Kathy Tugwell Asby of Herndon, Va.; a sister, Hazel Asby Lane of Henderson, N.C.; and four grandchildren, Courtney Stewart and Meredith Frances Asby of Richmond, Lauren Woodley and Olivia Nicole Asby of Herndon, Va. A funeral Mass will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday in St. Stephen's Episcopal Church by the Rev. Peter G. Magill. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery. The family will receive friends 7 to 8 p.m. today at H.D. Oliver Funeral Apts., Norfolk Chapel. Memorial donations may be made to the St. Stephen's Episcopal Church Memorial Fund, 1445 Norview Ave., Norfolk, Va., 23518, or to the Diabetes Research and Treatment Center Foundation, 855 W. Brambleton Ave., Norfolk, Va., 23510.

Obituary, Virginian-Pilot, July 5, 1995.