Nansemond-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Miner, Mary L. Delk, 1933 

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HOLD RITES FOR MRS. M. D. MINER 

Hundreds Pay Final Tribute to Leader of City's Welfare Agencies; 
   Services At St. Paul's and Cedar Hill. 

  Services at St. Paul's Episcopal Church and at Cedar Hill cemetery marked 
the obsequies yesterday afternoon for Mrs. Mary Louisa Delk Miner, prominent 
welfare, social and literary leader of Suffolk, who died at a Norfolk hospital 
Sunday. 

  Among the hundreds attending the service at St. Paul's and standing in Cedar 
Hill were both white and Negro men and women who came to pay a simple tribute 
to a woman who as chairman of the Red Cross, had seen that they had food and 
clothing, or had befriended them in other ways.  Friends and relatives from 
Tidewater Virginia and more distant points joined with those in Suffolk for 
the last respects. 

  The Rev. Herbert N. Tucker, rector of St. Paul's, was assisted in the 
conduct of the service by the Rev. Joseph B. Dunn, of Richmond, a former 
rector of the Suffolk parish. 

  Chopin's funeral march was played on the organ as the procession entered 
the church and the choir sang the hymns, "The Strife Is O'er," "For All Thy 
Saints," and the chants, "Lord, Let Me Know Mine End," "Lord, Thou Has Been 
Our Refuge." 

  The casket was covered with a pall of carnations and freezies [sic; 
freesias] with a center of red roses and calla lilies.  There were a score 
of handsome floral tributes, many sent by organizations in which Mrs. Miner 
held membership. 

  Members of the Nansemond Chapter of American Red Cross, Literary Club, 
Suffolk Woman's Club. Nanemond River Garden Club, A.P.V.A., King's Daughters 
and church societies, in all of which Mrs. Miner had been an active worker, 
attended the services. 

  Active pall-bearers were: C.L. Hutchins, W.P. Lipscomb, Dr. Peter P. Causey, 
H.L. Land, J.H. Corbitt, H.S. Lewis, J.B. Joynes and Walter Price. 

  Members of the vestry of St. Paul's church acted as honorary pallbearers. 


Mary Louisa (DELK; Mrs. Ashley Bassett) MINER, 
   chairman of the Nansemond Chapter of American Red Cross, 
b. 19 Nov 1878, Isle of Wight Co., d. 2 Apr 1933, Norfolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block G, Lot 46*), Suffolk, 4 Apr 1933, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 11, No. 11, Wed., Apr. 5, 1933, pp. 1 & 2 

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

A photo of her gravestone - added by Jake Dog - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Mem. #44685022. 

Her mother, Margaret Ada (URQUHART) DELK (1842 - 1933), is buried in 
   the same lot: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_d.txt 

D.Cert. 8067 (Norfolk #514) 

Mrs. MINER left will, 20 Jan 1932; codicil 18 Mar 1933; probate 14 Apr 1933. 
   An article ("Suffolk News-Herald," Apr. 15, 1933, pp. 1 & 8) on the 
   provisions is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/wills/m560m1wl.txt 

Her husband's obit appeared in the "Suffolk News-Herald," Jan. 1, 1928. 

Her father, Dr. James Edward Lewis DELK (1836 - 1887), was a Confederate 
   veteran, having served in the 5th & 13th VA Cavalry, and later as a 
   hospital steward.  He is buried with his in-laws in an URQUHART family 
   cemetery, "Oak Grove," Broadwater Rd., Southampton Co. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol 1 (MV-I-45): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol1.txt 


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