Isle of Wight County-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Goodrich, Mary E. Hearn, 1929 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ MARY E. HEARN GOODRICH Mrs. Mary Hearn Goodrich, aged 27, 413 Monticello Avenue died at St. Vincent's Hospital, Thursday morning, at 6:40 o'clock as the result of self- administered poison, coroner reported. She was carried to the hospital about 2:30 o'clock after she had been discovered in the locked bathroom of her home by Mrs. Ruth Dickson, of the same address. Mrs. Goodrich was a native of Smithfield and had been a resident of Norfolk for the past two years. She is survived by her husband Octavius C. Goodrich, two children, Octavius C. Goodrich, Jr., and George Newton Goodrich, all of Smithfield, her father, Mrs. Will Hearn, of Smithfield, one sister and four brothers. The body was taken from H.D. Oliver's Funeral Apartment and brought to Smithfield on Thursday evening for burial The funeral services were conducted by the Rev. Summerville [sic; E.W. Somerville] on Friday evening at 3 o'clock, from the Uzzell's Methodist Church, the interment being in the church cemetery, and many beautiful floral designs were contributed. Mary E. (HEARN; Mrs. Octavius C. [II]) GOODRICH, of Norfolk, Smithfield native, suicide 31 Jan 1929, Norfolk, interred in Uzzell's Methodist Church Cemetery (Sect. A*), 1 Feb 1929, "The Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 8, No. 33, Feb. 7, 1929 *Her parents, William B. & Loula C. HEARN, are buried there also. Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} #13: http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html Her in-laws are buried in Ivy Hill Cemetery, Smithfield. IWCHS GSSTF #48. Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Carolyn Keen (VAHistoricHouses@aol.com) & Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/g362m1ob.txt