NEWPORT NEWS, Va. — Roy Weston Harvey, 89, passed away Saturday, Nov. 21, 2009.

Born in Garrett County, Maryland, he had been a Newport News resident since 1953.

He was a retired Colonel in the Army Reserve, having served throughout World War II and during the Korean Conflict. He was also a retired New York Life Insurance agent with 25 years of service. He was a member of Lee Hall Baptist Church.

He was preceded in death by his parents, J. Wesley Harvey and Edna M. Harvey of Garrett County; and also his wife of 61 years, Evelyn Miller Harvey.

He is survived by his children, Stephen Harvey and wife Barbara of Staunton and Carolyn (Kay) Williams and husband Wayne of Suffolk; four grandchildren, Amie Shields (Kevin) of Jacksonville, Fla., Michael Harvey of Newport News, Krysta Swope (Frank) of Staunton and Jonathan Williams of Suffolk; and five great-grandchildren, Ethan, Hannah and Landon Shields, Kortni Harvey and Ella Swope.

The family will receive friends from 11 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009 at Weymouth Funeral Home, Newport News, with a funeral service to follow in the funeral home chapel.

Interment will follow in Albert G. Horton Jr. Memorial Veterans Cemetery in Suffolk at 1:45 p.m.

Arrangements are by Weymouth Funeral Home, Newport News.