 1962 - 1987 (25 years)
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| Name |
Pettinger, Brian Craig [1, 2, 3] |
| Born |
9 Nov 1962 |
Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA  [1, 3, 4, 5, 6] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Residence |
19 Jan 1985 |
Newport News, Virginia, USA [6] |
| Residence |
4 Dec 1987 |
Newport News, Virginia, USA [4] |
| Died |
4 Dec 1987 |
Suffolk, Suffolk City, Virginia, USA [4, 5, 7, 8] |
| Buried |
Hampton National Cemetery, Hampton, Hampton City, Virginia, USA [5] |
| Person ID |
I34413 |
Sackett | Descendants of Thomas Sacket the Elder, Descendants of Simon Sackett the Colonist |
| Last Modified |
24 Jan 2021 |
| Father |
Living |
| Mother |
Living |
| Children |
5 children |
| | 1. Living | | | 2. Living | | | 3. Pettinger, Brian Craig, b. 9 Nov 1962, Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA , d. 4 Dec 1987, Suffolk, Suffolk City, Virginia, USA (Age 25 years) | | | 4. Living | | | 5. Living |
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| Family ID |
F12274 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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 | Born - 9 Nov 1962 - Rochester, Monroe County, New York, USA |
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 | Residence - 19 Jan 1985 - Newport News, Virginia, USA |
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| Residence - 4 Dec 1987 - Newport News, Virginia, USA |
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 | Died - 4 Dec 1987 - Suffolk, Suffolk City, Virginia, USA |
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 | Buried - - Hampton National Cemetery, Hampton, Hampton City, Virginia, USA |
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| Sources |
- [S305] Brian Sackett, Sackett, Brian.
- [S2389] Virginia, U.S., Death Records, 1912-2014, (Ancestry.com) (Reliability: 3), 23 Jan 2021.
Name: Brian Craig Pettinger
Gender: Male
Race: White
Death Age: 25
Birth Date: 9 Nov 1962
Birth Place: New York
Death Date: 4 Dec 1987
Death Place: Found in the James River, Suffolk, Virginia, USA
Cause of Death: Drowning
Residence: 406 Maryle Court, Newport News, Virginia, USA
Registration Date: 10 Feb 1988
Father: John Pettinger
Mother: Carol Sackett
Spouse: Jaqueline Pettinger
Certificate Number: 1987045972
Military Status: yes
Informant: Wife
Researched by Ted Smith
- [S2389] Virginia, U.S., Death Records, 1912-2014, (Ancestry.com) (Reliability: 3), 23 Jan 2021.
Name: Brian Craig Pettinger
Gender: Male
Race: White
Death Age: 25
Birth Date: 9 Nov 1962
Birth Place: New York
Death Date: 4 Dec 1987
Death Place: Found in the James River, Suffolk, Virginia, USA
Cause of Death: Drowning (Homicide)
Residence: 406 Maryle Court, Newport News, Virginia, USA
Occupation: Security officer
Registration Date: 10 Feb 1988
Father: John Pettinger
Mother: Carol Sackett
Spouse: Jaqueline Pettinger
Certificate Number: 1987045972
Military Status: yes
Burial: Hampton National Cemetery, Hampton, Va.
Informant: Wife
Researched by Ted Smith
- [S1619] Newspapers.com (Reliability: 3), 23 Jan 2021.
Daily Press (Newport News, Virginia), 4 Feb 1988, Page 15
Mr. Brian C. Pettinger
NEWPORT NEWS -- Mr. Brian Craig Pettinger, 25, of 406 Meryle Court, was found dead Monday.
He was born in Rochester, N.Y., and had been a Peninsula resident for seven years.
He was a security officer and an Army veteran.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Jacqueline Pettinger; his parents, John and Mrs. Carol S. Pettinger of Canandaigua, N.Y.; a sister, Miss Jill Pettinger of Canandaigua; and three brothers, Todd Pettinger, Glenn Pettinger and Steve Pettinger, all of Canandaigua.
A funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Monday at Weymouth Funeral Home Chapel by the Rev. Frank Forehand. Burial will follow in Hampton National Cemetery.
The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.
The family requests that expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, 1835 K. St., S.W., Suite 600, Washington D.C.. 20006, (Attn. Fund Raising).
Transcribed by Ted Smith
- [S543] Find A Grave (www.findagrave.com) (Reliability: 2), 23 Jan 2021.
Memorial ID 117232841
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/117232841
Brian C. Pettinger
Birth 9 Nov 1962
Death 4 Dec 1987 (aged 25)
Burial
Hampton National Cemetery
Hampton, Hampton City, Virginia, USA
Researched by Ted Smith
- [S2391] Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1936-2014, (Ancestry.com) (Reliability: 3), 23 Jan 2021.
Name: Brian Craig Pettinger
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 22
Birth Date: 9 Nov 1962
Birth Place: New York, USA
Residence: Newport News, Virginia
Marriage Registration Place: Newport News, Virginia, USA
Marriage Date: 19 Jan 1985
Marriage Place: Newport News, Virginia, USA
Father: John Fred Pettinger
Mother: Carole Ann Sackett
Spouse: Jacqueline Cheryl Fanton
Certificate Number: 1985000499
Name: Jacqueline Cheryl Fanton
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 19
Birth Date: 3 Mar 1965
Birth Place: Virginia
Residence: Newport News, Virginia
Marriage Registration Place: Newport News, Virginia, USA
Marriage Date: 19 Jan 1985
Marriage Place: Newport News, Virginia, USA
Father: Robert Eugene Fanton
Mother: Utako Yamazaki
Spouse: Brian Craig Pettinger
Certificate Number: 1985000499
Researched by Ted Smith
- [S1619] Newspapers.com (Reliability: 3), 23 Jan 2021.
Daily Press (Newport News, Virginia), 13 Dec 1987, Page C3
Wife seeks missing man
Psychic consulted in disappearance
By DAVID CIIERNICKY
Staff Writer
NEWPORT NEWS -- Jackie Pettinger has gone to police, hired a private investigator and even contacted a psychic in a desperate attempt to find her husband, who failed to return from an instructor's class at the Ballroom Dance Club the night of Dec. 4.
"I want to do whatever I can to find him," Mrs. Pettinger said, sobbing over the uncertainty of not knowing what happened to Brian Pettinger, her husband of three years.
Mrs. Pettinger, 22, does not want to believe the psychic, who told her that her 25-year-old husband was in danger. She would not elaborate on what the psychic told her.
While police have yet to find evidence to suggest foul play, detectives have classified the disappearance as suspicious.
Newport News Detective Bill Hayes, who has been investigating the case since early last week, acknowledges the circumstances are baffling.
"When you have a disappearance like this, you start to look for reasons why, but up to this point we have not come up with a valid reason," Maj. J. D. Lftiford, a spokesman for Newport News police, said Friday. "So far we have not uncovered any problems that would indicate the disappearance was of his doing."
For the wife, the emotional vigil continues. "I don't want [See Missing, Page C4]
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to keep wondering if he's dead or not," Mrs. Pettinger said.
It was shortly after 6:30 p.m. that Brian Pettinger told his wife goodbye as he left her parents' home near Menchville High School. Pettinger had dropped his wife off there and left to attend a class at the Ballroom Dance Club of Hampton, 4908-C W. Mercury Blvd.
"Every Friday night there was a party at the club for students and instructors. As far as I knew, he was going to stay awhile, then come home," Mrs. Pettinger said.
"That was the last time. There were no arguments or anything. We had plans for the weekend."
Pettinger kept his appointment at the dance class and left, police say.
Mrs. Pettinger spent most of the wee hours and Saturday driving around Newport News, looking for the truck.
"I was up all night. Then I came home and kept looking for cars going by my house," she said. The couple rents a house near Fort Eustis.
Sunday morning, Mrs. Pettinger located her husband's light-blue, 1983 Chevy S-10 pickup parked outside the Leggett Department Store at the Newmarket North mall, several hundred yards from the Ballroom Dance Club.
On the floor of the pickup were two tickets to a dance show the couple had planned to attend that Saturday night.
In their three years of marriage, Brian had left only once, Mrs. Pettinger said. Two years ago, the couple was having problems and she asked her husband to leave. He went to his parents in New York for three or four days. "But while he was gone, I talked to him every night," she said.
Pettinger began work about a month ago at River Mews Apartments, where he did maintenance work, his wife said. Before that, he had worked for two private security companies.
Mrs. Pettinger recalled her husband receiving death threat from people he had arrested for shoplifting.
"Nothing makes sense. I want to know he's alive and well. don't want to keep wondering if he's dead or not."
Police ask anyone with information about Pettinger's whereabouts to call Detective Hayes at 874-3330 or 247-8438 or Newport News Crime Line.
Pettinger has blond hair and blue eyes, stands 5 feet 9 inched and weighs 150 pounds. He ha$ tattoos of three Oriental women on his right arm, a tattoo of a snake on the left arm and small tattoo of a sunset on the back of his left shoulder, police said.
Transcribed by Ted Smith
- [S1619] Newspapers.com (Reliability: 3), 23 Jan 2021.
Democrat and Chronicle (Rochester, New York), 6 Feb 1988, Page 1B
Ex-Canandaigua man found dead in Virginia river
By Craig Gordon
Democrat and Chronicle
The body of a former Canandaigua man was found this week in a Virginia river bound at the ankles and wrists but police don't know who killed him or why.
Brian C. Pettinger, 25, was found Monday after being missing since Dec. 4, according to reports in the Daily Press in Newport News, Va. A rope was found around his neck, but an autopsy report lists drowning as the cause of death.
Two fishermen found Pettinger's body in a marshy area on the bank of the James River in Suffolk, near Newport News, where he had lived, the reports said. Pettinger left the upstate area in 1980.
The body was identified using fingerprints. Pettinger was wearing only a pair of socks and a dress shirt, reports said.
Until Pettinger was found, his family had hoped he somehow would return after being missing for two months, said Pettinger's father, John.
"We've hoped against hope against (this)," John Pettinger said last night in Canandaigua. "It's been kind of the suspicion from the start, but you never have any tangible proof."
An autopsy showed Pettinger's body probably had been in the river from two weeks to two months, reports said. It also had a gash on the back of the head, but officials didn't know if that happened before or after Pettinger was put in the river.
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Suffolk police Lt. William Freeman said yesterday police still hadn't established a motive for the killing but were looking at some possible suspects.
"We're following up some pretty strong leads right now," Freeman said, but he refused to elaborate. He said police were hoping for a break in the case by Tuesday or Wednesday.
Pettinger, a security officer who lived in Newport News with his wife, Jackie, was last seen Dec. 4 after attending a class at a ball room dance club in the nearby town of Hampton, reports said.
Jackie Pettinger suspected something had happened to him and immediately called police. Two days later, she found her husband's 1983 Chevrolet pickup truck in a mall parking lot near the dance club. The handle to the driver's side door was almost broken off, reports said.
It was two long months before anyone would know what had happened, and John Pettinger said it was a difficult time.
"The whole thing has been a shock to us, the whole way everything has gone," he said. But on the advice of police, Pettinger said he could not talk about the circumstances of the case.
Brian Pettinger left Canandaigua in 1980 when he joined the Army for a four-year hitch. He worked as a heavy equipment operator and eventually was stationed at a base in Newport News, where he met Jackie and married her, his father said.
Pettinger enjoyed his years in the Army, and in his free time he enjoyed hunting, fishing, boating and more recently gardening, his father said.
Along with his wife and father, Pettinger is survived by his mother, Carole Pettinger; three brothers, Glen, Todd and Steve; a sister, Jill; and grandparents, Dee Remsen and John and Marjorie Pettinger.
Transcribed by Ted Smith
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