Isle of Wight-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Robertson, Queenie Wright, 2000 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ QUEENIE WRIGHT ROBERTSON Queenie Wright Robertson, 82, the widow of William Skinner Robertson, died Aug. 14, 2000, at Southampton Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Robertson was a lifelong resident of Isle of Wight County [sic*] and was a daughter of the late Joseph Aaron and Emily Pope Wright. She was a member of Beaver Dam Baptist Church. Survivors include two sons, Dr. William Glenn Robertson and his wife, Janet, of Leavenworth, Kan., and Thomas W. Robertson of St. Paul, Minn.; a sister, Eunice W. Daughtrey of Carrsville; and a grandson, William Stewart Robertson of Leavenworth. A graveside service will be conducted at 10 a.m. Friday at Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery with the Rev. T. Floyd Irby Jr. officiating. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at Wright Funeral Home and suggest memorial donations be made to the American Cancer Society, c/o Ruth Petty, 116 Southampton Road, Franklin, VA 23851. ****************************************************************************** Queenie W. Robertson Queenie Wright Robertson, 82, the widow of William Skinner Robertson, died Monday, Aug. 14, at Southampton Memorial Hospital. Mrs. Robertson was a lifelong resident of Isle of Wight County, and was the daughter of the late Joseph Aaron and Emily Pope Wright. She was a member of Beaver Dam Baptist Church. Survivors include two sons, Dr. William Glenn Robertson and his wife, Janet, of Leavenworth, Kan., and Thomas W. Robertson of St. Paul, Minn.; one sister, Eunice W. Daughtrey of Carrsville; and one grandson, William Stewart Robertson of Leavenworth. The graveside service will be conducted at 10 a.m. Friday at Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery with the Rev. T. Floyd Irby Jr. officiating. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday at Wright Funeral Home, Franklin. The family suggests that memorials be made to the American Cancer Society, c/o Mrs. Ruth Petty, 116 Southampton Rd., Franklin 23851. Queenie (WRIGHT; Mrs. William S.) ROBERTSON, b. 17 Feb 1918, Isle of Wight Co., d. 14 Aug 2000, Franklin, interred in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery*, near Carrsville, 18 Aug 2000, "Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Aug. 16, 2000, B9; "Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 76, No. 196, Wed., Aug. 16, 2000, p. 2 *Additional information: Her parents and paternal grandmother are also buried there. Beaver Dam list (BD-66 & 81), an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," July 30, 1981, p. 10A) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/r163w4ob.txt Her father's obit ("Tidewater News," May 1, 1967, p. 6) at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/w623j2ob.txt Her mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Oct. 21, 1971, p. 5) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/w623e1ob.txt The family lived for a time in Franklin; son Glenn was a 1982 graduate of Franklin H.S. He is the author of several Civil War histories, including "Back Door to Richmond." (mh) 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/r163q1ob.txt