Suffolk City-Nansemond-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Sheffield, William H., 1981 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ WILLIAM HENRY SHEFFIELD SUFFOLK - A funeral service for William Henry Sheffield, 63, was held Monday at 2 p.m. in First Baptist Church by Dr. Wayne W. Poplin. Burial was in Cedar Hill Cemetery, with R.W. Baker & Co. Funeral Home in charge. Sheffield died Friday in a Norfolk hospital. A native of Southampton County, he was the husband of Mrs. Mildred P. Sheffield and the son of Mrs. Rosa Council Sheffield of Suffolk. He was a retired owner of Sheffield Lumber Co. and was a member of First Baptist Church and Suffolk Masonic Lodge 30. Other survivors include a sister, Mrs. Mildred S. Wells of Greenville, N.C. William Henry SHEFFIELD, retired owner of Sheffield Lumber Co., Southampton Co. native, d. 30 Oct 1981, Norfolk, age 63, interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block V, Lot 6*), Suffolk, 2 Nov 1981, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 5, 1981, p. 8A *His parents are buried in the same lot. Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_s.txt 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/suffolk/obits/s143w1ob.txt