Nansemond County-Suffolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gardner, Willie B., 1984 

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Willie Gardner 

  FRANKLIN - Willie B. Gardner, 64, of Route 1, a native of Nansemond County, 
died Tuesday in a hospital. 

  Gardner had retired from farming. 

  Survivors include a sister, Carrie Lee Gardner of Franklin; and two 
brothers, Joseph F. Gardner of Franklin and Robert E. Lee Gardner of Suffolk. 

  The funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday in Wright Funeral Home by 
the Rev. Clyde R. Alderman.  Burial will be in the Gardner Family Cemetery, 
Cutchins Farm, Suffolk. 

  The family will be at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. today and at his 
brother's home, 7940 Harvest Drive, Suffolk. 


Willie B. GARDNER, retired farmer, 
b. 3 May 1920, Nansemond Co., 5 Jun 1984, Franklin, 
interred in the GARDNER family cemetery*, near Elwood, 7 Jun 1984, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 62, No. 135, Wed., June 6, 1984, p. 2 

*Additional information: 

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 (NV-IV-6), an extension of the Southampton Co. Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol4.txt 

No Find a Grave Memorial 

It seems to be identical with what Find a Grave calls the CUTCHIN family 
   cemetery (ID #2591819; Coordinates: 36.67718, -76.81457).  It appears 
   from satellite as lying just north of the Norfolk-Southern tracks, about 
   ¼-mile west of where Barnes Rd. (Rt. 651) crosses the tracks, and about 
   ½-mile east of Elwood, and about 2 miles west of Holland. 

His parents, Willie Uriah & Elnora (VAUGHAN) GARDNER, are also buried there. 

D.Cert. 84-018759 gives never married. 

The family appears in the 1950 Census in Windsor Dist., Isle of Wight Co., 
   1½ miles from Lee's Millpond. 

His father's obits ("Suffolk News-Herald" & "Tidewater News," Dec. 1965) 
   are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/g635w1ob.txt 

His mother's obits ("Suffolk News-Herald," Aug. 30, 1965, & 
   "Tidewater News," Sep. 1, 1960) are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/g635e9ob.txt 


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