Isle of Wight-Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Saunders, Effie M. Wrenn, 1987 

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Effie Mae Saunders 

  Mrs. Effie Mae Wrenn Saunders, 77, of 218 Edgewood Drive, died Saturday, 
Jan. 3, in Riverside Hospital, Newport News. 

  Mrs. Saunders, born in Surry County, was a homemaker.  She was a member of 
the Smithfield Baptist Church. 

  Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Helen S. Delgado, Mrs. Ruby S. Jones and 
Mrs. Catherine S. Latimer, all of Smithfield; two sons, Finley Lee Saunders of 
Disputanta and Donald Gene Saunders of Hampton; two sisters, Mrs. Doris 
Holloway Collier of Dendron and Mrs. Agnes Louise Saunders of Waverly; also 14 
grandchildren and 13 great grandchildren.

  Services will be held today at 2 p.m. at the Colonial Funeral Home Chapel 
with Dr. Donald R. Rhoton and the Rev. Warren F. Taylor officiating.  Burial 
will be in Antioch Christian Church Cemetery, Windsor. 

  The family requests memorial donations may be made to the Isle of Wight 
County Rescue Squad or the Smithfield Baptist Church. 

  Pallbearers were Marco A. Delgado, Stephen L. Delgado, Jeffrey D. Landrus, 
Thomas Wayne Latimer, Keith G. Latimer, L. Dean Latimer, Carl F. Saunders, 
Randal L. Saunders, Charles T. Saunders and Clyde W. Saunders. 

  Colonial Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements. 


Effie Mae (WRENN; Mrs. George Finley) SAUNDERS, of Smithfield, 
b. 1 Oct 1909, Surry Co., d. 3 Jan 1987, Newport News, 
interred in Antioch Christian Church Cemetery*, near Windsor, 7 Jan 1987, 
"Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 68, No. 1, Wed., Jan. 7, 1987, p. 9 

*Additional information: 

Antioch list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/antioch.txt 
   Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #20: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 

A photo of her gravestone is posted with Find a Grave Memorial #104675975. 

D.Cert. 87-000400 

Her husband's obits ("Suffolk News-Herald" & "Smithfield Times," Aug. 1960) 
   are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/s536g1ob.txt 

Her father, Samuel "Sam" WRENN (1872 - 1917), is buried unmarked in Mill Swamp 
   Church Cemetery; not on IWCHS GSSTF report #55. 

Her widowed mother, Carrie Virginia (FERGUSON) WRENN (1891 - 1983), 2m. Allie 
   HOLLOWAY, 30 Dec 1920 in Surry Co.  They are buried in Waverly Cemetery, 
   Sussex Co. 


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