Nansemond-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Lankford, Ada V. Eley, 1938 

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ADA ELEY LANKFORD

   Suffolk, Feb. 16 - Funeral services for Mrs. Ada Eley Lankford were 
conducted this afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the residence near Windsor by the 
Rev. W.V. Carroll and the Rev. J. Sydney Cobb.  Burial was in Western Branch 
Cemetery.

   A quartet composed of Mrs. Clarence Harrell, Mrs. G.C. Bradshaw, James 
Moore and Dr. I.W. Johnson, sang "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere," and "Sometime 
We’ll Understand."  A duet, "Old Rugged Cross," was sung by the Rev. and Mrs. 
W.V. Carroll.  There were many floral tributes and the casket was covered with 
a pall of Ascension lilies and pink roses.  Active pallbearers were Garland 
Tebo, Ralph Eley, Fulmer McAbee, Alton Eley, Marshall L. Bowden, Charlie C. 
Johnson, Edgar L. Bradshaw, and Norman Bossellman.  Honorary pallbearers were 
friends of the family.


Ada Viola (ELEY; Mrs. Wiley J.) LANKFORD, 
d. 14 Feb 1938, Nansemond Co., age 69, 
interred in Western Branch Baptist Church Cemetery (Row 4, Plot 10*), 
   16 Feb 1938, 
donated obit, newspaper unknown 

*Western Branch list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/wernbr.txt 

Her husband's obit ("Smithfield Times," Nov. 10, 1938, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/l521w4ob.txt 

Their m.rec. gives b. Nansemond Co.  Her D.Cert. gives b. Isle of Wight Co. 

Her mother, "Indie" Indiana Virginia (BRADSHAW; 2nd Mrs. Lemuel) ELEY, 
   is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk - Block F, Lot 45. 
   Cedar Hill list, another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_d.txt 


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/nansemond/obits/l521a1ob.txt