Nansemond County-Suffolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Brinkley, Mabel A. Ward, 1980 

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MABEL ANNIE WARD BRINKLEY 

  Mrs. Mabel Ward Brinkley, 68, of 509 Greenway Rd. died Friday at 9:16 a.m. 
in Louise Obici Memorial Hospital.

  She was daughter of the late Benjamin Edward [sic*] and Mrs. Annie Byrum 
Ward.

  She was a native of Gates County, N.C. and the widow of Lewis Vann Brinkley.

  Survivors include seven daughters, Mrs. Daniel Eure and Mrs. Jordan Lynn of 
Suffolk, Mrs. Bill Faulkner of Portsmouth, Mrs. Monty Dixon of Ahoskie, N.C., 
Mrs. Walter Eure of Gatesville, N.C., Mrs. James Johnson of Floyd, Va., and 
Mrs. Gene Earley of Weldon, N.C.; two sons, Abraham Ward Brinkley of Gates, 
N.C., and Thomas P. Brinkley of Suffolk; four sisters, Mrs. Clarine King of 
Suffolk, Mrs. Lucy Small of Chesapeake, Mrs. Jean Blick of Norfolk, and Mrs. 
Margie Romanchuck of Corapeake, N.C.; a brother, George E. Ward of Corapeake; 
22 grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

  A funeral will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. in Cypress Chapel Christian Church 
by the Rev. Allen R. Blakney and Dr. R.E. Brittle. 

  Burial will be in the church cemetery.  The body will be taken from I.O. 
Hill & Co. Funeral Home to the church at 1 p.m. Sunday.  The family will be 
at her home.


Mabel Annie (WARD; Mrs. Lewis V.) BRINKLEY, 
Gates Co., NC native, d. 4 Jan 1980, Suffolk, age 68, 
interred in Cypress Chapel Christian Church Cemetery**, 6 Jan 1980, 
"The Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Jan. 6, 1980, p. 2 

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

*Her parents, Edward Benjamin & Annie Beulah (BYRUM) WARD, are buried in 
   Eureka Baptist Church Cemetery, Corapeake, Gates Co., NC. 


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