Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Brinkley, M. Alice Darden, 1935 

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ALICE DARDEN BRINKLEY

   Suffolk, Nov. 9, 1935 - Mrs. Alice Darden Brinkley, 82, member of an old and 
prominent Nansemond County family and daughter of the late Robert M. Darden and 
Julia Riddick Darden, died this afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. 
Ralph Artman, in College Court, after a long illness.

   Mrs. Brinkley was the widow of Joel H. Brinkley and is survived by two 
daughters, Mrs. Ralph Artman and Miss Julia Brinkley; two grandsons, Dr. R. 
Townsend Artman, of Philadelphia, and Jack Artman, of Suffolk; two 
granddaughtera, Mrs. Wallace Walton, Suffolk, and Miss Virginia Brinkley, of 
Staunton.

   She was a member of Suffolk Christian Church.

   Funeral services will be conducted Monday afternoon at 3 o’clock at the 
Suffolk Christian Church by Dr. J.G. Truitt and the Rev. H.S. Hardcastle. Burial 
will follow in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

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MARY ALICE DARDEN BRINKLEY

   Funeral services were to be held at 3:30 p.m. today for Mrs. Alice Darden 
Brinkley, aged 82, who died Saturday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. 
Ralph Artman, in College Court.

   The rites were to be conducted at Suffolk Christian church by the pastor, the 
Rev. Dr. John G. Truitt, assisted by the Rev. H.S. Hardcastle of Norfolk. Burial 
was to be made in the family plot at Cedar Hill Cemetery.

   Mrs. Brinkley, one of Suffolk’s oldest residents, had made her home here for 
a half-century and was well known throughout this section. She was the widow of 
J.H. Brinkley, who died several years ago.

   Mrs. Brinkley’s death followed an illness of two weeks duration.

   Surviving Mrs. Brinkley are two daughters, Mrs. Artman and Miss Julia 
Brinkley; two granddaughters, Mrs. Wallace H. Walton and Miss Virginia Brinkley; 
and two grandsons, Dr. Townsend Artman, of Philadelphia, and Jack Artman of 
Suffolk.


[Mary Alice (DARDEN; Mrs. Joel H.) BRINKLEY, 
 d. 9 Nov 1935, College Court, Suffolk, age 82, 
 interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block G, Lot 81), Suffolk, 11 Nov 1935, 
 "The Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), dateline Nov. 9, 1935; 
 "The Suffolk (VA) News Herald," Nov. 11, 1935, p. 6] 

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