Isle of Wight-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Darden, Thomas R., 1968 

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THOMAS RUEL DARDEN 

   HOLLAND - A funeral service for Thomas Ruel Darden was conducted Sunday at 
3 p.m. in Beaver Dam Baptist Church by the Rev. Edward C. Thornton Jr. and the 
Rev. Jerry Odom.  Burial was in the church cemetery with W.J.M. Holland & Sons 
Funeral Home in charge.

   Pallbearers were Hurley Byrd, Percy Strictland, Richard Sydnor, Robert 
Babb, Billy Peace, Starling Jones, Harvey Griggs and Durward Holland.

   Darden, 30, died Friday at 3 p.m. in a Norfolk hospital.

   A native of Nansemond County, he was a son of William Goldie and Mrs. 
Virgie Johnson Darden of Nansemond County and the husband of Mrs. Mary 
Elizabeth Rose Darden.

   He was member of Colosse Baptist Church.

   Besides his wife and parents, he is survived by two daughters, Linda Carol 
Darden and Rose Renee Darden, and two sons, Thomas R. Darden Jr. and Karl 
Randolph Darden, all of Holland; six sisters, Mrs. Doris Hill, Mrs. Minnie 
Lankford, and Mrs. Sandra Cook of Franklin, Mrs. Glenn Taylor of Holland, and 
Mrs. Mae Whitmore and Miss Joyce Darden of Suffolk; and two brothers, William 
C. Darden and James A. Darden of Holland.


Thomas Ruel DARDEN, 
Nansemond Co. native, d. 12 Jan 1968, Norfolk, age 30, 
interred in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery*, 14 Jan 1968, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 18, 1968, Sect. 2, p. 7 

*His parents are also buried there. 
   Beaver Dam list (BC-27 & -28) - an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt 


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