Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Hunter, Elizabeth B. 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.


Elizabeth Brownley (ODOM; Mrs. Henry H.) HUNTER, of Whaleyville, 
b. Walterboro, SC native, d. 21 May 1961, Newport News, age 80, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block G, Lot 7*), Suffolk, 2 Mar 1936, 
donated obit, publication unknown 

*Her husband, Dr. Henry Holmes HUNTER, d. 17 Jun 1939. 
   Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County 
   Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_g.txt 

His (donated) obit is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/h536h1ob.txt 


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