Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gardner, Mary Babb, 1961 

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Mrs. Gardner Funeral Today 

  Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Babb Gardner will be conducted today at 2 
p.m. at the Hill Funeral Home by the Rev. R.E. Brittle, pastor of Bethlehem 
Christian Church.  Burial will be in Cypress Chapel Christian Church. 

  Mrs. Gardner, 78, died Friday at 1 p.m. at the home of her daughter, Mrs. 
J.T. Joyner, 218 Cedar St, after a long illness. 

  She was the widow of George W. Gardner and a daughter of George W. and Mrs. 
Sally Anne Outland Babb of Nansemond County. 

  She was a member of Antioch Christian Church. 

  Besides Mrs. Joyner, with whom she lived, surviving are one son, Robert 
Gardner of Franklin; three stepdaughters, Mrs. Allie Ashley of Suffolk and 
Mrs. F.E. Turner, and Miss Susie Gardner of Ivor; three stepsons, D.T. 
Gardner, Joshrie Gardner and Ray E. Gardner of Suffolk; one sister, Mrs. Dora 
Eure of Nampa, Idaho; three grandchildren; four great-grandchildren and 
several step-grandchildren. 


Mary (BABB; Mrs. George Washington) GARDNER, 
b. 22 Sep 1882, Nansemond Co., d. 1 Sep 1961, at daughter's home, Suffolk, 
interred in Cypress Chapel Christian Church Cemetery*, 3 Sep 1961, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 39, No. 209, Sun., Sep. 3, 1961, p. 9 

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

D.Cert. 23213 (Suffolk #35) 

Her parents, George W. & "Sallie" Sarah Ann (OUTLAND) BABB, are buried in 
   the BABB-RALES family cemetery.  SCHS Cemetery Project, 
   Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 1 (NV-I-7): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol1.txt 

Her father (1836 - 1911) was a Confederate veteran, having served as a private 
   in Co. I, 41st VA Infantry.  He applied for a pension 29 Oct 1909, being 
   "too old and feeble to do any work."  His widow applied for a pension 
   3 Jan 1917. 


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