Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gardner, Willie U., 1965 

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WILLIE URIAH GARDNER

   FRANKLIN - Willie Uriah Gardner, 80, a lifelong resident of Nansemond 
County, died early Tuesday in Southampton Memorial Hospital.

   He was the husband of the late Mrs. Elenor Vaughan Gardner and a son of 
Franklin F. and Mrs. Ida Darden Gardner.

   He was a member of South Quay Baptist Church.

   Surviving are three sons, Willie B. Gardner, J.F. Gardner, and Robert L. 
Gardner of Franklin; a daughter, Miss Carrie Lee Gardner of Richmond; two 
brothers, George E. Gardner of Hampton and Luke Gardner of Holland; and a 
sister, Mrs. Martha Darden of Franklin.

   A funeral service was conducted Thursday at 2 p.m. in W.J.M. Holland & 
Sons Funeral Home by the Rev. L.F. Smith of South Quay Baptist Church.

   Burial was in the family cemetery near Elwood.

   Pallbearers were G.A. Pearce, Jason Butler, Chuck Johnson, Julie Darden, 
Julie Turner, Tillman Jenkins, Robert Butler and Gilbert Harrell.


Willie Uriah GARDNER, 
lifelong resident of Nansemond Co., 21 Dec 1965, Franklin, age 80, 
interred in the GARDNER family cemetery*, near Elwood, 23 Dec 1965, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 27, 1965, p. 2 

*Elwood, located where Elwood Rd. (Rt. 613) crosses the Norfolk-Southern rail 
   line, was only the R.R. station between Franklin & Holland.  The GARDNER 
   family cemetery is included in Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Cemeteries, 
   Vol. 4 (IV-6), an extension of the Southampton Co. Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol4.txt 


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