Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cobb, Frances L. Britt, 1985 

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Frances B. Cobb 

  Mrs. Frances Britt Cobb, 85, of Four Square Farm, died Thursday, May 2. 

  Mrs. Cobb, born in Abbeville, South Carolina, was the widow of William 
Macklin Cobb.  She was a homemaker, a teacher at Smithfield High School 
and a member of Smithfield Baptist Church for over 60 years.  She was a 
graduate of Winthrop College, Rock Hill, South Carolina.  She was a member 
of the Huguenot Society of South Carolina, the Shakespeare Class, the 
Colonel William Allen Chapter of the Daughters of American Revolution. 

  She also held membership in the Isle of Wight Chapter of the Daughters of 
the Confederacy, the Smithfield Library Association, a charter member of the 
Woman's Club of Smithfield, the Isle of Wight Historical Society and the 
Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.  She was a volunteer 
for the Red Cross, American Cancer Society and the March of Dimes.  She was 
the daughter of the late Dr. John B. and Jemima Morrow Britt.

  Surviving are one daughter, Kate Cobb McGinnis, Shipman; two sisters, Mrs. 
C.W. Stevens, Tampa, Florida; Mrs. K.S Carr, Greenville, South Carolina; one 
grandson, Bernard L. McGinnis II, Shipman: two granddaughters, Miss Mary Cobb 
McGinnis, Shipman, and Miss Frances Shaw Glenn, Hilton Head, South Carolina; 
also several nieces and nephews. 

  Graveside services were held at 3 p.m. Saturday, May 4 at Ivy Hill Cemetery, 
Smithfield with the Rev. Warren F. Taylor and the Rev. Donald R. Rhoton 
officiating. 

  Pallbearers were Walter W. Cobb, Cecil W. Gwaltney Sr., Jack G. Chapman, 
John A. Ramsey Jr., Randolph E. Barlow Jr., Stanley G. Barlow, Mayo B. Jones, 
Stephen T. Edwards and R. Deanie Edwards. 

  The family suggests memorial donations may be made to the Ivy Hill Perpetual 
Care Cemetery Fund c/o C.W. Gwaltney Sr., 328 Grace Street, Smithfield, 
Virginia 23430. 

  Colonial Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements. 

Frances Lynn (BRITT; Mrs. William M.) COBB, teacher, 
b. 12 Aug 1925, Abbeville, SC, d. 2 May 1985, Smithfield, 
interred in Ivy Hill Cemetery*, Smithfield, 18 Apr 2000, 
"Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 66, No. 19, May 8, 1985, p. 5, col. 1-2 

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

Find a Grave Mem. #167481014 

Her parents are buried in Buffalo Baptist Church Cemetery, Buffalo, 
   McCormick Co., SC.  Her father's (donated, 1913) obit is posted with 
   Find a Grave Mem. #75944325. 


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