Beverley Munford III

Mr. Munford grew up in Richmond, attending St. Christopher’s School and Woodberry Forest School. A 1950 graduate of the University of Virginia with a degree in economics, Mr. Munford was a lifelong Cavaliers sports fan who held season tickets to football games for more than six decades. Before college, he served two years as a corporal in the Air Force, where he was stationed in Hawaii. Mr. Munford’s wife, Brenda “Twiggy” Gough Munford, turned him down the first time he asked her out in 1978. But she changed her mind the next time he asked, and five years later, during a trip to Annapolis, Md., he asked her to marry him. Mr. Munford would climb his way through the ranks, eventually becoming the investment firm’s executive vice president and vice chairman. At 89 years old, he had spent 65 years with the investment company working alongside the best friend he had known since childhood, Henry L. Valentine II. Mr. Munford also had an active civic life. He served on the board and as president of the Richmond Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (he had doted on his Cavalier King Charles spaniel, Whiskey). He also held leadership positions with the Greater Richmond Chamber, the Richmond Society of Financial analysts and The Bond Club of Virginia. In addition to his wife, Mr. Munford is survived by his children, Benton Alexander Munford, Mary Munford Catlett and Patricia Tinsley Munford; brother, John Durburrow Munford; and five grandchildren.