Nansemond-New Kent County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bunkley, Lucie V. Lester, 1965 

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MRS. LUCIE L. BUNKLEY 

  ECLIPSE - Mrs. Lucie Lester Bunkley, 85, a resident of this community, died 
at 8 p.m. Saturday at Obici Memorial Hospital. 

  She was the daughter of John Franklin [sic*] and Mrs. Ann Atkinson Lester of 
New Kent County and was a member of the Ebenezer Methodist Church at 
Crittenden.  She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Bunkley Causey of 
Eclipse, and one grandson, Peter Bunkley Causey. 

  Funeral services will be conducted at 5 p.m. Monday at the Ebenezer 
Methodist Church by the Rev. W. Boyd Bryant.  Burial will be in the Mt. Zion 
Christian Church cemetery at Eclipse. 

  The body will be taken from the R.W. Baker & Co. Funeral Home to the church 
one hour prior to the funeral. 

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LUCIE LESTER BUNKLEY 

   Eclipse - Mrs. Lucie Lester Bunkley, 85, died in a hospital at 8 p.m. 
Saturday.  A native of New Kent County, she was a daughter of John Franklin 
and Mrs. Ann Atkinson Lester and the widow of Samuel Q. Bunkley.  She was a 
member of Ebenezer Methodist Church. 

   She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Bunkley Causey of Eclipse, 
and a grandson, Peter B. Causey. 

   The funeral service will be held Monday at 5 p.m. in Ebenezer Methodist 
Church.  Burial will be in Mt. Zion Christian Church Cemetery, Crittenden. 
The body will be taken from Baker Funeral Home, Suffolk, to the church one 
hour before the funeral. 


"Lucie" Lucille Virginia (LESTER; Mrs. Samuel Quincy) BUNKLEY, 
b. 25 Mar 1880, New Kent Co., d. 10 Jul 1965, Suffolk, 
interred in Mt. Zion Christian Church Cemetery*, Crittenden, 12 Jul 1965, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 43, No. 164, Sun., July 11, 1965, p. 2; 
donated obit, newspaper unknown 

*Additional information: 

Mt. Zion list (Z-11), an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/mtzion.txt 

A photo of her gravestone - added by Jake Dog - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #14340222. 

D.Cert. 65-020869 gives her father as John F. 

Rather, her father was John B. LESTER (1847-1923), son of "Ben" Benjamin 
   Franklin & Lucy R. LESTER.  He was appointed Postmaster of Barhamsville, 
   New Kent Co.  He is buried in Oak Mound Cemetery, Healdsburg, Sonoma Co., 
   CA. 

Her mother, "Fanny" Frances Ann (ATKINSON) LESTER died in June 1885 in 
   Albemarle Co.  Her widower remarried within the year. 


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