Isle of Wight-Chesterfield County-Chesapeake City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Deans, Betty L. Poindexter, 1936 

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BETTY LIGHTFOOT POINDEXTER DEANS

BELOVED WINDSOR WOMAN SUCCUMBS

   Windsor, Nov. 24 - Mrs. Betty Lightfoot Poindexter Deans, 85, prominent in 
Isle of Wight County, and Eastern Virginia, died this morning at her home here 
after an illness of several months.

   Funeral services will be conducted at the grave in family lot in Churchland 
in Norfolk County Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock, by the Rev. J.L. King, 
of Kenbridge, and the Rev. J. Sydney Cobb, of Cartersville.

   The funeral procession will leave the home Wednesday at 2 p.m.

   Mrs. Deans was the widow of the Rev. Dr. Joseph Franklin Deans, and with 
her husband organized the Windsor Academy in 1879, and this school at which 
many of the youth of that day were educated flourished for many years.

   She was born January 25, 1851 in Chesterfield County and was the daughter 
of Edwin Wilkinson and Fanny Archer Hundley Poindexter.

   She was a woman of many rare and unusual qualities of mind and heart, and 
had a large place in the activities for good in her chosen community.

   Surviving her are a son, Col. Parke P. Deans, chairman of the Virginia 
Industrial Commission of Richmond, and a daughter, Miss Ethel Louise Deans, 
of Windsor.


"Betty" Elizabeth Lightfoot (POINDEXTER; Mrs. Joseph F.) DEANS, 
b. 25 Jan 1851, Chesterfield Co., d. 24 Nov 1936, Windsor, age 85, 
interred in Churchland Baptist Church Cemetery*, Norfolk Co. (now Chesapeake), 
   25 Nov 1936, 
donated obit, newspaper unknown, dateline Nov. 24, 1936 

*Find A Grave Memorial # 147485881 includes photos of her monument & footstone 

Her husband's obits ("Times-Dispatch," Feb 1903) are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/d520j1ob.txt 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/d520b1ob.txt