Isle of Wight-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Brock, A. Lelia Minton, 1936 

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ANNIE LELIA MINTON BROCK 

MRS. LELIA MINTON BROCK 

FUNERAL HELD MONDAY FOR WIDOW OF DR. L.C. BROCK, 
   LONG IDENTIFIED WITH CIVIC, RELIGIOUS AND SOCIAL LIFE. 

   Funeral services were held Monday, May 4 in the Smithfield Baptist Church 
at 3:30 for Mrs. Lelia Minton Brock, 57.  Funeral services were conducted by 
Rev. L.F. Paulette assisted by the Rev. William Brayshaw.  Interment was in 
Ivy Hill Cemetery.

   Mrs. Brock passed away Saturday afternoon at 4:30 after an illness of 
several months.  She was the daughter of the late Claudius Taylor Minton and 
Irene Carpenter Minton of Nansemond County.  She is survived by one sister, 
Mrs. Eunice Minton Whitley wife of Geo. F. Whitley, Smithfield attorney and 
two nephews George Franklin, Jr., a senior law student at the University of 
Virginia and Claude Minton Whitley, senior at University of Richmond.

   Mrs. Brock was one of the most outstanding women in her section.  She was 
a woman of able leadership wide influence, great personal charm and ready wit. 
She was a public spirited citizen always interested in everything which made 
for the improvement of her community.  She leaves a host of friends to mourn 
her loss.

   Mrs. Brock was a member of the Smithfield Baptist Church, Counsellor of 
its young Women’s Auxiliary for the past fifteen years and President of the 
Ladies’ Aid Society for twenty years; a member at the Smithfield Woman’s Club 
and chairman of the Civic Department, secretary of the United Daughters of the 
Confederacy and a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.

   Hundreds of friends attended the funeral services Monday afternoon.  The 
flowers were handsome and numerous.

   Active pallbearers were: W.P. Warren, Dr. Wilson Ames, F.B. Simpson, Jr., 
W.H. Sykes, Jr., Dr. Rae Parker, John I. Cofer, Jr., C.C. Howell and Lee W. 
Morton.

   Relatives and friends from away who attended the funeral were: Colonel and 
Mrs. Parke P. Deans, of Richmond, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Loraine of Winston - Salem 
North Carolina. Mr. and Mrs. Fredrick Saunders of Richmond, Mr. and Mrs. W.H. 
Godwin Jr., and Irene Minton Godwin of Richmond; Mr. and Mrs. Crawley Joyner 
of Richmond; Miss Fanita Bidgood of Norfolk, Judge and Mrs. B.D. White of 
Norfolk, Mr. Norman Hamilton of Portsmouth, Mrs. T.S. Dunaway of Accomack, 
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Dye, of Virginia Beach, Mr. and Mrs. David Rawls of Virginia 
Beach; Mr. and Mrs. J.M. Darden of Suffolk, Mr. and Mrs. Charlie B. Godwin, 
Dr. and Mrs. Whitney Godwin, Mr. and Mrs. George Ben Stott all of Suffolk. 
Dr. Buxton and Dr. Davis of Newport News, Mr. Henry Hutcheson of Taphannock, 
Virginia. Mrs. A. Dovell of Williamsburg, Thomas Dunaway, of Newport News, 
Miss Mary Deans, Mr. Horace Deans, Jr. and Mrs. Hall of Churchland and many 
others.


Annie Lelia (MINTON; Mrs. Leslie C.) BROCK, civic leader, 
Nansemond Co. native, d. 2 May 1936, age 57, 
interred in Ivy Hill Cemetery*, Smithfield, 4 May 1936, 
"The Smithfield (VA) Times," May 7, 1936, p. 1, col. 8 

*Her parents are also buried there. 
   Isle of Wight County Historical Society 
   {IWCHS} Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #48: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 


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