Isle of Wight-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Howell, Charles C., 1981 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ CHARLES COOPER HOWELL SMITHFIELD - A funeral service for Charles Cooper Howell, 82, was held Saturday at 2 p.m. in Colonial Funeral Home by the Revs. Warren F. Taylor and J. Currie Carter. Burial was in Ivy Hill Cemetery. Howell died Wednesday in Walter Reed Convalescent Center, Gloucester. A native of Southampton County, he was the husband of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Betts Howell. He was a retired banker with Merchants & Farmers Bank, where he served as cashier, vice president and president. He retired from banking six years ago. When the bank merged with Virginia National Bank, he was vice president and manager of the Smithfield Branch of Virginia National. He had served on the board of the Home Telephone Co. and the Smithfield Water Co. He was also a past town councilman of Smithfield. He was a 55 year member of Courtland Masonic Lodge 85 and member of the Scottish Rite Bodies of Newport News, and Khedive Shrine Temple of Norfolk. He was a member of St. Luke’s Episcopal Church, Courtland. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Sandra H. Hall of Shacklefords; a sister, Mrs. Annie H. Vaughan of Suffolk; and three grandchildren. [Charles Cooper HOWELL, retired banker & former Smithfield town councilman, Southampton Co. native, d. 18 Nov 1981, Gloucester, age 82, interred in Ivy Hill Cemetery*, Smithfield, 21 Nov 1981, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 23, 1981, p. 5] [*Isle of Wight County Historical Society, Grave Site Survey Task Force list: http://www.iwchs.com/Documents/Ivy%20Hill_Old%20Stage%20Rd_Cemetery2.doc] Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/h400c4ob.txt