Nansemond-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Brett, Russell C. Jr., 1968 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ RUSSELL CARROLL BRETT, Jr. Suffolk - Russell Carroll Brett, Jr., 43, former Suffolk resident was fatally injured in a single car collision Saturday in Savannah, Ga., where he had been living for the last year. The tragedy was the second of its kind to occurred in the Brett family. His father, Russell C. Brett, Sr., was killed in an automobile collision near Suffolk in March 1967.* Brett, office manager for Fuller Oldsmobile of Savannah, left Suffolk several years ago for employment with an automobile firm at Franklin. He was a member of Franklin Presbyterian Church and a World War II veteran of the Navy. He is survived by his mother, Mrs. Anna Curry Brett; his wife, Mrs. Betty Ann Bradshaw Brett; two daughters, Betty Carroll and Ann Curry Brett of Savannah; a son Russell C. Brett, III of Savannah, and a brother William C. Brett of Suffolk. A funeral service will be conducted Monday at 4 p.m. at Hill Funeral Home, Suffolk by the Rev. John Teter of Main Street Methodist Church. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. The family will be at the home of Mrs. Anna C. Brett of 301 Causey Ave. Russell Carroll BRETT, Jr., formerly of Suffolk & Franklin, automobile dealer, Navy veteran of WW-II, d. 6 Jul 1968, Savannah, GA, age 43, interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery*, Suffolk, 8 Jul 1968, "The Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), July 7, 1968 *Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt An article on his father's death ("Virginian-Pilot," Mar. 17, 1967) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/b630r1ob.txt The obit for his first wife ("Virginian-Pilot," Feb. 28, 1956) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/b630v2ob.txt A 1957 portrait appears online, in the Library of Virginia (LVA) and Suffolk Public Library's Hamblin Studio Photograph Collection (1909-1979). Search database at the LVA website for Subject "Brett, Russell": http://www.lva.virginia.gov/ 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/b630r2ob.txt