Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Barrett, Ava M. Darden, 1954 

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Funeral Thursday For Mrs. Barrett 

  Funeral services for Mrs. Ava Darden Barrett, 54, who died yesterday at the 
home of her daughter, Mrs. Phillip Rountree, 208 Chestnut Street, after an 
illness of five months, will be conducted tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the I.O. Hill 
and Co. Funeral Home by Dr. H.S. Hardcastle. 

  Burial will be in Colosse Baptist Church Cemetery. 

  A native of Isle of Wight County, her parents were William Washington 
Darden, and the late Mrs. Martha Catherine Parker Darden, of Carrsville.  She 
was the wife of the late Walter Strouse Barrett.  Besides her daughter and 
father, surviving are four other daughters, Mrs. Mitchell Bounds and Mrs. 
Frank Buppert, both of Chuckatuck; Mrs. Manley Rountree, of Portsmouth; Miss 
Betty Jean Barrett, of Suffolk; one son, Walter Edward Barrett, of Lake Bay, 
Wash.; two sisters, Mrs. A.J. Cobb and Mrs. R.T. Harrison, both of Newport 
News; nine grandchildren, and a number of nieces and nephews. 

  She was a member of the Oakland Christian Church, of Chuckatuck. 


Ava Marie (DARDEN; Mrs. Walter S.) BARRETT, 
b. 6 Dec 1900, Isle of Wight Co., d. 21 Dec 1954, at daughter's home, Suffolk, 
interred in Colosse Baptist Church Cemetery*, Collosse, 23 Dec 1954, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 32, No. 301, Wed., Dec. 22, 1954, p. 1 

*Additional information: 

Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #44: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 

A photo of her gravestone is posted with Find a Grave Memorial #110620389. 

Her parents are also buried there. 

D.Cert. 27274 (Suffolk #61) 

Her husband is buried with his parents & step-mother in Antioch Christian 
   Church Cemetery, near Windsor. 
   Antioch list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/antioch.txt 
   IWCHS GSSTF report #20. 

His obit ("Smithfield Times, Jan. 5, 1949, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/b630w10o.txt 


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