Gates County NcArchives Obituaries.....Brinkley, Erma Lassiter 1969 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bruce Saunders bs4403@verizon.net February 5, 2014, 11:18 am THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 03-13-1969, P. 7 ERMA LASSITER BRINKLEY PORTSMOUTH - A funeral service for Mrs. Erma Lassiter Brinkley, age 66, was conducted Thursday at 2:30 p.m. in the R.W. Baker and Co. Funeral Home, Suffolk, by Rev. R.A. Craig, retired Methodist Minister and Rev. Robert D. Fridley. Burial was in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk. Pallbearers were M.D. Simons, J.O. Mountcastle, Roland C. Parker, Ralph K. Hollowell, F.J. Brinkley Jr. and John M. Warrington. Mrs. Brinkley, died Tuesday at 3:15 p.m. in Portsmouth General Hospital after a long illness. A native of Gates County, N.C. she was the wife of Herman Butler Brinkley and the daughter of the late John Thomas and Mrs. Martha (Lula) Holland Lassiter. She was a member of Somerton Methodist Church. Formerly a resident of Suffolk, she had made her home in Portsmouth for the past 20 years. Besides her husband surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Daisy L. Smith, San Diego, Calif., Miss Mary E. Lassiter, Whaleyville and Mrs. Janie L. Warrington, Courtland, one brother, John Maynard Lassiter of Petersburg, and several nieces and nephews. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/gates/obits/b/brinkley3490gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb