Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Eley, Walter C., 1957 

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WALTER CLINTON ELEY

   Suffolk - Walter Clinton Eley, 69, died Friday at the Lane Nursing Home 
after a long illness.

   He was a native of Nansemond County, son of Richard F. Eley and Mrs. 
Algenettie Oliver Eley, member of the First Baptist Church and a charter and 
honorary member of the King’s Fork Ruritan Club.

   He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ruth Turner Eley of Suffolk; a son, 
Clinton Turner Eley of Hertford, N.C.; two grandsons, Charles Eley and Sidney 
Eley of Hertford; four sisters, Miss Jennie Eley and Mrs. Ethel Eley Boothe 
of Norfolk, Mrs. J.B. Archer and Miss Ophelia Eley of Nansemond County, and a 
brother, Thomas C. Eley of Arlington.

   Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Baker Funeral 
Home here by the Rev. J.C. Mitchell, pastor of First Baptist Church, and the 
Rev. James O. Mattox of Hertford, N.C.  Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

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Walter Clinton Eley, 69, Dies Here Today 

  Walter Clinton Eley, 69, died today at 10:30 a.m. at the Lane Nursing Home 
after a long illness. 

  He was a son of the late Richard F. Eley and Algenettie Oliver Eley of 
Nansemond County.  He was a member of the First Baptist Church, Suffolk and 
a charter member and honorary member of the King’s Fork Ruritan Club. 

  He is survived by his wife. Mrs. Ruth Turner Eley of Suffolk, a son, Clinton 
Turner Eley of Hickory, N.C., two grandsons, Charles Eley and Sidney Eley of 
Hertford, N.C.; four sisters, Miss Jennie Eley and Mrs. Ethel Eley Boothe of 
Norfolk and Mrs. J. Bunyan Archer and Miss Ophelia Eley of Nansemond County; 
a brother, Thomas C. Eley of Arlington and several nieces and nephews. 

  Funeral arrangements will be announced later. 

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Funeral Today For Walter Clinton Eley 

  Funeral services for Walter Clinton Eley will be conducted today at 2:30 
p.m. at the Baker Funeral Home by the Rev. J.C. Mitchell, pastor of the First 
Baptist Church and the Rev. James O. Mattox of Hertford, N.C.  Burial will be 
in Cedar Hill. 

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WALTER ELEY 

  Funeral services for Walter Clinton Eley were conducted Sunday at 2:30 p.m. 
at the Baker Funeral Home by the Rev. J.C. Mitchell, pastor of the First 
Baptist Church and the Rev. James O. Matton, of Hertford, N.C.  Burial was in 
Cedar Hill Cemetery. 

  The casket was covered with a pall of white asters and red roses.  A quartet 
composed of Bill Hall, E.H. Rountree, Garland Griffin and the Rev. Ward Donat 
sang "Let The Lower Lights Be Burning," accompanied at the organ by Mrs. Helen 
Whitley. 

  Pallbearers were Jim Bass, Harry Winslow, Willie Ainsley, James E. Gardner, 
Ollie B. Davis, John Atkinson, Eugene Wagner and John A. Daughtrey.


Walter Clinton ELEY, retired grocer, 
b. 11 Dec 1887, Nansemond Co., d. 6 Sep 1957, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block G, Lot 134*), Suffolk, 8 Sep 1957, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Sep. 7, 1957; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 35, No. 211, Sep. 6, 1957, p. 1; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 35, No. 212, Sep. 8, 1957, p. 9; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 35, No. 213, Sep. 9, 1957, p. 3, col. 7 

*His step-mother, Rowena J. (BUTLER) ELEY, is also buried in Cedar Hill. 
   Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County 
   Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_d.txt 

Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 22064 (Suffolk #51) 

His parents are buried in an ELEY family cemetery, 2656 Old Myrtle Rd. 
   (Find a Grave Mems. #38917833 & #38917750)  
   Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 1 (I-35), 
   another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol1.txt 

His father's (donated, 1925) obit is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/e400r1ob.txt 


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