Isle of Wight-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Darden, Rufus E., 1967 

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RUFUS EVERETT DARDEN 

   CARRSVILLE - A funeral service for Rufus Darden was conducted Tuesday at 
2 p.m. in Beaver Dam Baptist Church by the Rev. Edwin C. Thornton Jr.  Burial 
was in the church cemetery with W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home in charge.

   Pallbearers were Linwood Duck, Chesley Mumford, Wayland Perry, William 
Howell, James M. Carr, Ryland Duck, Elwood Gavin, and Willie Lee Bradshaw.

   Darden, 56, a native of Nansemond County, the husband of Mrs. Dorothy 
Piland Darden and a son of the late William Thomas and Mrs. Sarah Catherine 
Holland Darden, died Sunday morning in his home after an illness of several 
months.

   He was a farmer and member of Beaver Dam Baptist Church.

   Besides his widow, surviving are five sons, Luther Darden of Suffolk, 
Raymond Darden, Rufus Darden Jr., and Bernard Darden of Carrsville, and Marvin 
Darden of Franklin; a brother, Goldie Darden of Holland; a sister, Mrs. T.M. 
Estes of Franklin; and seven grandchildren.


Rufus Everett DARDEN [Sr.], 
Nansemond Co. native, d. 10 Dec 1967, at home, Carrsville, age 56, 
interred in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery*, 12 Dec 1967, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 14, 1967, p. 3 

*Beaver Dam list (BC-27) - an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt 

His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," Apr. 16, 1973, A-7) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/d635d3ob.txt 


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