Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Duck, John G., 1944 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ JOHN GILBERT DUCK John Gilbert Duck, 77, well-known retired farmer and merchant of Walters, died Monday morning July 10, in Raiford Memorial Hospital after an illness of a few days. Mr. Duck was the husband of Mrs. Mary Turner Duck of Walters, and son of the late Abram and Julia Beale Duck of Isle of Wight County. He was a member of Mt. Carmel Christian Church, near Walters. Besides his wife he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. John M. Ballard; two grandchildren, Mrs. J. Leonard Rose of Walters and Staff Sergt. John M. Ballard Jr., of Panama; Leonard Rose, Jr., of Walters; and one sister, Miss Sallie Duck, also of Walters. Funeral services were conducted the following Wednesday afternoon at 3 o'clock at Mt. Carmel Church by Dr. I.W. Johnson, pastor of the Suffolk Congregational Christian Church. Burial was in Mt. Carmel Cemetery. John Gilbert DUCK, of Walters, retired farmer and merchant, Isle of Wight Co. native, d. 10 Jul 1944, Franklin, age 77, interred in Mount Carmel Christian Church Cemetery*, Walters, 12 Jul 1944, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 21, 1944, p. 1 *Mount Carmel list - an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/mtcarmel.txt His wife's obits ("Smithfield Times" & "Tidewater News," May 1958) are posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/d200m4ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by William J. DelMonte (JazzyBill@aol.com) and Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/d200j1ob.txt