Nansemond County-Suffolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Mathews, Willard L., 1968 

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WILLARD LEE MATTEWS 

   SUFFOLK - Willard Lee Mathews, 64, of Rosewood Drive, Nansemond County, 
died Wednesday in a Portsmouth hospital after illness of several weeks.

   A native of Suffolk, he was a bookkeeper for Perry Lumber Co.

   He was the husband of Mrs. Verlie Spivey Matthews and a son of George 
and Mrs. Ada Joyner Mattews.

   He was a member of Suffolk Christian Church and its Baraca Sunday School 
Class, Suffolk Masonic Lodge 30, Royal Arch Chapter 20, and Past Masters and 
Wardens Association.

   Besides his widow surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Ray Lowrimore of Virginia 
Beach and Mrs. William Mullen of Tunis, N.C. and a brother, Earl Matthews of 
Suffolk.

   A funeral service will be held today at 4 p.m. in I.O. Hill & Co. Funeral 
Home by the Rev. Robert E. Lee of Southside Baptist Church.  Burial with 
Masonic rites will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.


Willard Lee MATHEWS, of Suffolk, Perry Lumber bookkeeper, 
Suffolk native, d. 18 Sep 1968, Portsmouth, age 64, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block P, Lot 18*), Suffolk, 22 Oct 1948, 
donated obit, publication unknown 

*Buried with his in-laws; his parents are buried in Block F, Lot 31. 
   Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County 
   Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_m.txt 

His mother's (donated, 1948) obit is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/m320a2ob.txt 


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