Nansemond County-Suffolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Arthur, Henry B., 1974 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ HENRY BRUCE ARTHUR SOMERTON - A funeral service for Henry Bruce Arthur, 66, was held Sunday, March 24, in Somerton United Methodist Church by the Rev. T.T. Markham Jr. Burial was in the church cemetery with I.O. Hill Funeral Home, Suffolk, in charge. Pallbearers were: John Carroll Ellis, T.H. Fowler, Haywood Fowler, Roger Fowler, Arthur T. Collings, Jesse Darden Langston, E. Curl Jr. and Jack R. Parker. Arthur, husband of Mrs. Mary Jane Cifers Arthur died in Southampton Memorial Hospital. A native of Somerton, he was a member of Somerton United Methodist Church. Other survivors include three sons, Thomas Vernon Arthur II of Whaleyville, Henry Bruce Arthur, Jr. of Virginia Beach and John Eugene Arthur of Somerton. Henry Bruce ARTHUR [Sr.], b. 19 Mar 1908, Somerton, d. 22 Mar 1974, Franklin, age 66, interred in Somerton United Methodist Church Cemetery*, 24 Mar 1974, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 28, 1974, p. 6A *His father & step-mother are also buried there. Somerton Methodist list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/sommeth.txt His mother & maternal grandmother are buried in a SMITH family cemetery, near Somerton. Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 2 (II-39), another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol2.txt Dates from D.Cert. 74-006761. 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/a636h1ob.txt