Nansemond County-Roanoke City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Farrar, Lena Beale, 1939 

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FARRAR RITES THURSDAY AT 3 

Former Resident Dies While On Visit To Sisters; To Be Buried Here 

  Funeral rites for Mrs. Lena Beale Farrar, of Roanoke, who died at Lakeview 
hospital here yesterday afternoon, will be conducted Thursday, at 3 o'clock, 
from Suffolk Christian church. 

  Mrs. Farrar, widow of W.G. Farrar, became ill several days ago while 
visiting her sisters in Suffolk, Mrs. J.E. West and Miss Effie Beale.  Her 
son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Costen, had been at her bedside 
since her admission to the hospital.

  She was a daughter of the late Rev. Edwin Beale and Mrs. Eliza J. Beale, and 
besides her daughter, is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Junius Edgar West and 
Miss Effie Beale, of Suffolk; a brother, Edwin Beale, of Nansemond County; two 
nieces, Mrs. Henry Bowen Frazier, Jr., of Richmond, and Mrs. Maurice Herndon, 
of Kinston, N.C.; two nephews, Rosser W. West, of Newport News, and Alton T. 
West, of Elon College. 

  She was a member of the Suffolk Christian Church, and during her long life 
in Suffolk was an active member of the church societies and of the charitable 
organizations of the community.  She was a musician of ability and was 
professor of music at Elen College during its early years. 

  The rites for Mrs. Farrar will be conducted by the Rev. Dr. John O. Truitt, 
pastor of Suffolk Christian church.  Burial will be in Cedar Hill cemetery. 
Pall-bearers have been designated as follows: active: Rosser B. West, Alton 
T. West, Maurice G. Herndon, Henry B. Frazier, Jr., Jesse F. West, Jr., E.E. 
Jones, W.V. Leathers, Jack W. Nurney; honorary: Board of Deacons of Suffolk 
Christian Church. 


Lena (BEALE; Mrs. William Garland) FARRAR, of Roanoke, 
b. 10 Jun 1861, Alamance Co., NC, d. 5 Sep 1939, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block F, Lot 106*), Suffolk, 7 Sep 1939, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 17, No. 141, Sep. 6, 1939, p. 1 

*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 same lot: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 

Birthplace &c. from D.Cert. 19797 (Suffolk #225) 

Her late husband was a piano tuner. 


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