Isle of Wight County-Newport News Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Garner, Basil W., 1944 

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BASIL WOOD GARNER 

BASEL W. GARNER, 74, NATIVE I-W COUNTY BURIED MONDAY 

  Newport News - Basel [sic; Basil] Wood Garner, 74, died Saturday afternoon 
at 2:45 in Elizabeth Buxton hospital after an illness of 11 months.  Mr. 
Garner came here from Smithfield 18 years ago.  He had been employed by the 
Dawn Laundry.

  He is survived by one son, Merritt Woodrow Garner and a daughter, Miss Eva 
Mae Garner, of this city; one brother, F.L. Garner of Isle of Wight County, 
and several nieces and nephews.

  Mr. Garner was a member of Trinity Methodist Church.

  Funeral services were held at 2:30 Monday afternoon at the Rouse Funeral 
Chapel, conducted by Dr. Bernard Lipscomb, pastor of Trinity Methodist church. 
The body was sent to Uzzell's Methodist Church in Isle of Wight County, where 
burial services were conducted by the Rev. E.W. Rawlings.


Basil Wood GARNER, of Newport News, Dawn Laundry employee, 
d. 29 Apr 1944, Newport News, age 74, 
interred in Uzzell's Methodist Church Cemetery*, 1 May 1944, 
"The Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 27, No. 6, May 2, 1944, p. 1, col. 4 

*Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} #13: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 


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