Nansemond County-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Parker, Mary S. Odom, 1935 

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MARY SHEPARD ODOM PARKER

   Mrs. Mary Shepard Odom Parker, of 1321 Brunswick Park, Larchmont, died 
yesterday morning at 11:30 o’clock at a local hospital after a brief illness. 
She was 63 years old.

   Mrs. Parker, member of a widely-known Virginia family, was a native of 
Gates County, N.C., and had been a resident of Norfolk for 12 years.  She was 
a daughter of Dempsey and Mrs. Patty Riddick Odom.

   Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow afternoon at 1:30 o’clock at 
the Larchmont Methodist Church by the Rev. J.T. Bosman, D.D., formerly 
presiding elder of the Norfolk District, and the Rev. W. Albert Wright, D.D., 
pastor of the church.  Burial will be in Cedar Hill cemetery, Suffolk, at 
3:30 p.m.  Mrs. Parker was an active member of the Larchmont Methodist Church.

   Surviving Mrs. Parker are her husband, Surry Parker; five daughters; Mrs. 
W.M. Harrison, of Newport News; Mrs. Jack R. Edwards, of Greenville, N.C.; and 
the Misses Elizabeth, Peggy, and Jane Parker, of Norfolk; three grandchildren, 
W.M. Harrison, Jr., Surry Parker Harrison, and Miss Katherine Harrison, all of 
Newport News; two sisters, Miss Patty Borland Odom, of Norfolk, and Mrs. H.H. 
Hunter, of Whaleyville, and a number of nephews and nieces.

   Pallbearers at the funeral services tomorrow will be Jack Edwards, W.M. 
Harrison, F.O. Clark, J.R. Odom, Jr., T.D. Odom, R.R. Odom, George Kittrell, 
John Kittrell, Floyd Riddick, and Harold Hudgins.


Mary Shepard (ODOM; Mrs. Surry Sr.) PARKER, of Norfolk, 
b. 11 Oct 1872, Gates Co., NC, d. 5 Dec 1935, Norfolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block F, Lot 100*), Suffolk, 
donated obit, publication unknown 

*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 Mary - added by Latham_G.W. - and one of her gravestone - 
   added by Jenny - are posted with Find a Grave Memorial #14419323; 
   it spells her maiden name ODUM. 

D.Cert. 27525 (Norfolk #1574) 

Her husband's obits ("Suffolk News-Herald," Apr. 22, 1942, p. 8, & donated) 
   are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/p626s2ob.txt 

He 3m. her sister Pattie/Patty Borland ODOM (1874 - 1945); 
  she is buried in the same lot. 

Their parents, Dempsey & "Pattie" Martha Louise (RIDDICK) ODOM, donated the 
   land for Somerton Methodist Church.  They are buried in a family plot, 
   apparently in the vicinity of Somerton Methodist Church Cemetery. 
   Somerton Methodist list, another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/sommeth.txt 

Their father was a Confederate veteran, having served as a private in 
   the Louisiana Zouave Battalion.  He was captured at Somerton, 27 Jan 1864, 
   and held as a POW at Point Lookout, MD. 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/p626m1ob.txt