Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Blanchard, Martha C. Byrum, 1961 

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Mrs. Blanchard Services Held 

  Funeral services for Mrs. Martha Byrum Blanchard were conducted yesterday 
at Baker Funeral Home by the Rev. Emil A. Mialik, pastor of Great Fork Baptist 
Church.  Burial was in Holly Lawn Cemetery. 

  Mrs. Richard Solomon and Miss Mildred Johnson sang two selections, "Heaven 
of Rest" and "Somewhere," accompanied on the organ by Mrs. W.F. Whitley. 

  The casket was covered with a pall of white carnations and red roses. 

  Pallbearers were Joe Wood, Earl Blanchard, Charlie Riddick, Jerry Riddick, 
Sherill Ward and Arthur Bassett. 


Martha Caroline (BYRUM; Mrs. George Washington) BLANCHARD, 
b. 25 Aug 1884, Chowan Co., NC, d. 6 Mar 1961, Nansemond Co., 
interred in Holly Lawn Cemetery*, Suffolk, 8 Mar 1961, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 39, No. 58, Thurs., Mar. 9, 1961, p. 9 

*Additional information: 

Holly Lawn list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/hollyln.txt 

Photos of her gravestones - added by cwellman - are posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #66521691, which gives Martha Cornelia BLANCHARD. 

D.Cert. 7854 (Whaleyville #90) 

Her husband's obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," Nov. 17, 1952, p. 2) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/b452g1ob.txt 


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