Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Darden, W. Herbert, 1965 

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W. HERBERT DARDEN 

  SUFFOLK - Funeral services for William Herbert Darden of Suffolk will be 
conducted Saturday at noon at the graveside in Cedar Hill Cemetery by the Rev. 
James H. Newsome Jr., rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church.  The body is at 
the Baker Funeral Home. 

  Mr. Darden, 88, a retired grocery merchant, died Thursday at 5:30 p.m. in 
Lakeside Nursing Home after a long illness. 

  At retirement, he had been in the grocery business 60 years.  A native of 
Isle of Wight County, he was a son of Julius C. and Mrs. Lucy Turner Darden 
and the husband of the late Mrs. Janet Withers Darden. 

  He was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church. 

  Surviving are two sons, A. Taylor Darden of Suffolk and Robert Withers 
Darden of Cedartown, Ga.; a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Darden Pierce of 
Alexandria; a brother, Dr. J.C. Darden of Salem; a sister, Mrs. John S. 
Marshall of Smithfield; eight grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. 


William Herbert DARDEN, retired grocer, 
b. 22 May 1876*, Isle of Wight Co., d. 29 Apr 1965, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block T, Lot 8*), Suffolk, 1 May 1965, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 43, No. 103, Fri., Apr. 30, 1965, p. 2 

*Additional information: 

His parents are buried in Block C, Lot 100.  Cedar Hill list, an extension 
   of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_d.txt 

Photos of his monument - added by Hixburg23958 & Jake Dog - are posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #38929416. 

Ancestry.com "Isle of Wight County, Virginia, Birth Records" 
   gives b. 15 May 1876. 

His WW-I draft card gives b. 22 May 1876. 

D.Cert. 11147 (Suffolk #19) 

His wife's obits ("Suffolk News-Herald," Feb. 26 & 27, 1945, and donated) 
   are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/d635j4ob.txt 

His father was a Confederate veteran, having served as a corporal in Co. D, 
   16th VA Infantry. 


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