Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Hunter, E. Brownley Odom, 1961 

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ELIZABETH BROWNLEY ODOM HUNTER

MRS. E. HUNTER COUNTY LEADER, DIES DURING VISIT

   Whaleyville - Mrs. Elizabeth Brownley Odom Hunter, 80, Nansemond County and 
Suffolk civic leader, died Sunday morning while visiting a daughter, Mrs. 
Phillip Thomas Marshall, in Newport News.

   She was the widow of Dr. Henry Holmes Hunter, who practiced medicine here 
from 1917 until his death in 1940.* 

   She was a charter member of Suffolk Woman's Club and of the Suffolk-
Nansemond County Chapter American Red Cross.  She was an organizer of the 
Whaleyville Home Demonstration Club and for years was active in the Suffolk-
Nansemond Tuberculosis Association, the American Cancer Society, and the 
Democratic Party.

   From 1918 to 1959 she was registrar in this area for the state Vital 
Statistics Bureau.   

   She was a member of Gen. Roberts Chapter United Daughters of the 
Confederacy, and of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia 
Antiquities.

   She was a member of Whaleyville Methodist Church and its Woman's Society of 
Christian Service and Wesley Bible Class.

   A native of Walterboro, S.C., she was a daughter of the late Dempsey and 
Patty Riddick Odom of Gates County, N.C.

   Survivors include two daughters, Mrs. Marshall of Newport News and Mrs. 
Fitz Ormon Clarke of Whaleyville; and three grandchildren, Henry Holmes Hunter 
Clarke and Fitz Ormon Clarke, Jr. of Whaleyville and Brownley Hunter Marshall 
of Newport News.

   A funeral service will be conducted in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk, 
Tuesday at 4 p.m. by the Rev. Carl Cosslett of Whaleyville Methodist Church. 
The body is at I.O. Hill & Co. Funeral Home, Suffolk.  The family requests 
omission of flowers.

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Mrs. Hunter Rites Conducted Yesterday 

  WHALEYVILLE - Funeral services for Mrs. Elizabeth Brownley Odom Hunter were 
conducted yesterday afternoon at the graveside in Cedar Hill Cemetery by the 
Rev. Carl E. Cosslett, pastor of Whaleyville Methodist Church. 

  The casket was covered with a pall of pink sweetheart roses, pink carnations 
and white stock. 

  Pallbearers ware Henry Holmes, Hunter Clarke, Fitz Odom Clarke, Jr., Henry 
Hunter Odom, William M. Harrison, Jr., Surry Harrison, William J. Jones, Dr. 
M.T. Plyler, Jr., Thomas D. Odom, J.R. Odom, III, and T.C. Clarke. 


Elizabeth Brownley (ODOM; Mrs. Henry H.) HUNTER, of Whaleyville, 
b. 27 Mar 1881, Walterboro, SC, d. 21 May 1961, Newport News, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block G, Lot 7*), Suffolk, 2 Mar 1936, 
donated obit, publication unknown - likely: 
   "Daily Press" (Newport News, VA), Mon., May 22, 1961, p. 2; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 39, No. 123, Wed., May 24, 1961, p. 9 

*Additional information: 

Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County 
   Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_g.txt 

No Find a Grave Memorial 

D.Cert. 11616 (Newport News #434) 

Her husband d. 17 Jun 1939.  His (donated) obit is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/h536h1ob.txt 

Her sisters Mary & Patty m. (in succession) widower Surry PARKER. 
   They are also buried in Cedar Hill - Block F, Lot 100: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_p.txt 


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