Nansemond County-Portsmouth City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Byrd, Ruth E. Hancock, 1960 

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Rites Sunday For Mrs. Byrd 

  Funeral services for Mrs. Ruth Hancock Byrd will be conducted Sunday at 4 
p.m. at the Hill Funeral Home by the Rev. R.E. Brittle, pastor of Bethlehem 
Christian Church.  Burial will be in Cypress Chapel Christian Church cemetery. 

  Mrs. Byrd, 44, of 1224 White Marsh Rd., died Thursday at 2:30 p.m. in the 
Portsmouth Naval Hospital after a long illness. 

  She was a daughter of Mrs. India Ellis Hyatt and the late John W. Hancock, 
Jr., and was a native of Portsmouth.  She was a member of Cypress Chapel 
Christian Church. 

  Surviving are her husband, John Preston Byrd, Jr., two daughters, Mrs. Joyce 
Lee and Miss Sharon Ann Byrd, both of Nansemond County; one son, Stanley 
Holland of Nansemond County; five sisters, Mrs. Edward Jones and Mrs. Sidney 
Johnson of Suffolk, Mrs. Louie Seubert of Norfolk, Mrs. Jesse Jackson of 
Nansemond County and Mrs. Henry Hearn of Smithfield; three brothers, J.W. 
Hancock of Portsmouth, Jimmie Hancock of Suffolk and Lewis Hyatt of Warwick; 
and three grandchildren. 

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Mrs. Bruce [sic; Ruth] H. Byrd Rites Held Sunday 

  Funeral services for Mrs. Bruce Hancock Byrd were conducted Sunday at 4 p.m. 
at the Hill Funeral Home by the Rev. R.E. Brittle, pastor of Bethlehem 
Christian Church.  Burial was in Cypress Chapel Christian Church Cemetery. 

  Mr. Brittle read two poems, "To Parents" and "Crossing The Bar." 

  Miss Judy Edwards and Mrs. Richard Forrester sang "The Old Rugged Cross," 
accompanied at the organ by Mrs. Claudia Jacobs. 

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

  Pallbearers were W.M. Wilkins, Arthur Wilkins, George Stubbs, B.F. Case, 
R.C. Badger, T.V. Simpson, Surry Horton and M.B. King. 


Ruth Elizabeth (HANCOCK; Mrs. John Preston Jr.) BYRD, 
b. 2 Dec 1912, Portsmouth, d. 11 Aug 1960, Portsmouth, 
interred in Cypress Chapel Christian Church Cemetery*, 14 Jun 1959, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 38, No. 191, Fri., Aug. 12, 1960, p. 3; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 38, No. 193, Mon., Aug. 15, 1960, p. 3 

*Additional information: 

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

Photos of her gravestone - added by Emily & Hixburg23958 - are posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #103462246. 

Her mother (1887 - 1968) is also buried there. 

D.Cert. 20806 

Her husband was a Navy veteran of WW-II. 


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