Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Saunders, Whittie W. Clements, 1952 

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Mrs. Saunders Succumbs at 80 

  Mrs. Whittie Clements Saunders, 80, daughter of the late John M. and 
Margaret Worrell Clements, of Isle of Wight and Southampton Counties, died 
yesterday at 2:30 o'clock at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Andrew Griffin, 
at Orbit, Virginia. 

  Other than her daughter, with whom she made her home, she is survived by 
another daughter, Mrs. W.H. Butler, of Norfolk; three sons, C.F. Saunders, 
of Virginia Beach, C.R. Saunders, of Windsor and John N. Saunders, of Newport 
News; eight grandchildren and two great grandchildren. 

  She was a member of the Antioch Christian Church. 

  Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock at the 
Antioch Christian Church by the Rev. Ellis Clark, pastor.  Burial will follow 
in the church cemetery. 

  The body was taken to the R.W. Baker Funeral Home where it will remain until 
tomorrow at 2 o'clock, at which time it will be taken to the church to lie in 
state one hour prior to the funeral services. 

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Rites Are Held For Mrs. Saunders 

  Funeral services for Mrs. Whittie Clements Saunders, who died Wednesday at 
her home in Isle of Wight County, near Orbit, were conducted Friday afternoon 
at 3 o'clock at the Antioch Christian Church with the Rev. Ellis Clark, 
pastor, and the Rev. John Hamm officiating.  Burial followed in the church 
cemetery. 

  The church choir sang "Abide With Me" and "Sometime We'll Understand."  Mrs. 
Robert Gwaltney, accompanied by Mrs. W.C. Wilkins, sang as a solo, "Sunrise." 

  The pall was of pink and lavender carnations and white gladioli. 
Pallbearers were Marvin, Frank and Channing Clements, James Blanchard, Jack 
Whitley and D.S. Gwaltney.  Friends of the family served as honorary 
pallbearers. 


Whittie W. (CLEMENTS; Mrs. Charlie Edward) SAUNDERS, 
b. 13 Jan 1872, Isle of Wight Co., d. 14 May 1952, at daughter's home, near Orbit, 
interred in Antioch Christian Church Cemetery*, near Windsor, 16 May 1952, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 30, No. 116, Thurs., May 15, 1952, p. 1; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 30, No. 118, Sun., May 18, 1952, p. 8 

*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 Mem. #92743239. 

D.Cert. 19527 (Newport Dist.) erroneously gives her father as John Monroe 
   CLEMENTS; the informant was her daughter Whittie, Mrs. Andrew GRIFFIN. 

Her parents, John R. & Margaret (WORRELL) CLEMENTS are buried across 
   Antioch Rd. in the CLEMENTS family cemetery behind Antioch Christian 
   Church.  {IWCHS GSSTF #70} 


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