Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Powell, William S., 1952 

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Rites Held For William S. Powell 

  Funeral services for William Sidney Powell, of Magnolia, who died suddenly 
Sunday afternoon while attending memorial services at the Western Branch 
Baptist Church, were held yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock at the I.O. Hill 
Funeral Home with the Rev. B.A. Riddle, pastor of the Western Branch Church, 
officiating. 

  Mrs. Claudia Jacobs, accompanied by Mrs. Webb Pinner, Jr., sang "Beyood the 
Sunset." 

  The pall was of red roses, white carnations and baby's breath.  Pallbearers 
were John Henry Powell, Wesley Philhower, J.D. Johnson, D.T. Gardner, M.O. 
Spence, Captain A.B. Harper, Garland Vaughan and Oscar Gardner. 


William Sidney POWELL, of Magnolia, grocery merchant, 
b. 14 Dec 1883, Nansemond Co., d. 18 May 1952, Western Branch Baptist Church, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block K, Lot 2*), Suffolk, 20 May 1952, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 30, No. 121, Wed., May 21, 1952, p. 1 

*Additional information: 

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

A photo of his gravestone - added by Steve Poole - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Mem. #100775108. 

D.Cert. 12314 (Chuckatuck #4) 

His parents, Charles Jasper & Tamer Alice (GWYNN) POWELL, are buried in 
   Western Branch Baptist Church Cemetery - Row 1, Plot 11. 
   Western Branch Hill list, another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/wernbr.txt 

His mother's obit appeared in the "Virginian-Pilot," Oct. 9, 1918. 


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