Isle of Wight-Nansemond County-Suffolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries..... Brinkley, Joe T., 2000 

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JOE TAFT BRINKLEY 

  Joe T. Brinkley, 86, died March 30, 2000. 

  Born in Nansemond County, he was the son of Barnes Wesley Brinkley and Kate 
Jones Brinkley.  Mr. Brinkley was a lifelong mechanic and received his degree 
as a master mechanic from Kent State University in 1966.  He was a member and 
former deacon of Bethany Presbyterian Church in Zuni, Va. 

  Mr. Brinkley is survived by his wife of nearly 58 years, Hyla Joyner 
Brinkley; two sons, Joe T. Brinkley Jr. of Suffolk and James B. Brinkley and 
his wife, Susan, of Blowing Rock, N.C.; a brother, Lewis J. Brinkley of 
Suffolk; six grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and several nieces and 
nephews. 

  He was predeceased by a son, Richard L. Brinkley; four sisters, Faye B. 
Baines, Ruby B. Mitchell, Rosa B. Williams and Margaret B. Overman; and three 
brothers, Leon M. Brinkley, R. Cecil Brinkley and Melvin J. Brinkley. 

  A funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday in R.W. Baker & Co. Funeral Home, 
Suffolk, by the Rev. Douglas L. VanNiel of Bethany Presbyterian Church, Zuni. 
Burial will follow in Mount Carmel Cemetery, Walters, Va.  The family will 
receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday in the funeral home and other 
times at 304 Lake Drive, Suffolk.  Memorial donations may be made to the 
Bethany Presbyterian Church Building Fund, P.O. Box 41, Zuni, VA 23898. 


Joe Taft BRINKLEY, master mechanic, 
b. 9 Dec 1913, Nansemond Co., d. 30 Mar 2000, 
interred in Mount Carmel Christian Church Cemetery*, Walters, 2 Apr 2000, 
"Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Mar. 31, 2000, p. B9 

*Mt. Carmel list, an extension of the Southampton County 
   Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/mtcarmel.txt 

His father is buried in Cypress Chapel Christian Church Cemetery. 
   Cypress Chapel list, another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cypress.txt 

His mother is buried in Parker's Methodist Church Cemetery, Corapeake, 
   Gates Co., NC. 


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