Nansemond-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Debnam, Josie L. Ferguson, 1967 

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JOSIE LEE FERGUSON DEBNAM

   Suffolk - Mrs. Josie Lee Ferguson Debnam, 89, of 169 ½  Cedar St. died 
Thursday at 12:30 p.m. in Louise Obici Memorial Hospital after a brief illness.

   She was the widow of Thomas Hall Debnam and a daughter of Fenton Finley and 
Mrs. California Leo Worrell Ferguson.

   She was a member of Main Street Methodist Church and its L.M. Lee Bible Class 
and Circle 6.

   Surviving are a daughter, Mrs. H. Blackwell Cross Jr. of Suffolk; three sons, 
Lt. Col. Thomas F. Debnam of Charleston, S.C., Fred Archer Debnam of Wilmington, 
N.C., and Joseph H. (Bill) Debnam of Suffolk; three stepsons, Harry Debnam of 
St. Petersburg, Fla., George Debnam of Baltimore, and John Butner of Washington; 
a brother, Walter of Ferguson of Murfreesboro, N.C.; 11 grandchildren; and eight 
great-grandchildren.

   A funeral service will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. in I.O. Hill & Co. Funeral 
Home by the Rev. John Teter. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.


"Josie" Josephine Lee (FERGUSON; Mrs. Thomas H.) DEBNAM, 
Newsoms native, d. 12 Oct 1967, Suffolk, age 89, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block G, Lot 107*), Suffolk, 14 Oct 1967, 
"The Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Oct. 13, 1967 

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

Her parents are buried in the Boyette-Ferguson-Hill-Beamon family cemetery, 
   Murfreesboro, Hertford Co., NC. 

Her father helped develop early models of a mechanical peanut planter and 
   picker.  (Parramore, "Southampton County, Virginia," pp. 184-85) 


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