Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Smith, Luemma V. Parker, 1937 

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LUEMMA VIRGINIA PARKER SMITH

   SUFFOLK, Jan. 30 - Funeral services for Mrs. Louemma Virginia Smith, wife 
of Otis S. Smith, Sr., were held yesterday afternoon at the residence, West 
Washington and Clay Streets, and were conducted by Rev. John G. Truitt, pastor 
of the Suffolk Christian Church, of which Mrs. Smith and long been an active 
member.

   The casket was covered in a pall of Ascension lilies, white roses, lilies 
of the valley and ferns and there were numbers of beautiful floral offerings, 
among them being handsome designs from the Farmers Bank of Nansemond, Ladies 
Benevolent and Social Union of the Suffolk Christian Church, the Woman’s 
Auxiliary and Primary Department of the Sunday School, Silver Cross Circle of 
King’s Daughters’, and other organizations.  Members of the church 
organizations and the King’s Daughters’ attended the services in a body.

   Rev. Mr. Truitt read the hymns "Abide With Me" and "How Firm a Foundations."

   Burial was in Cedar Hill Cemetery. 

   Active pallbearers were George Smith, Peyton Smith, of Capron, Va., Wallace 
R. Kilby, Bradford Kilby, Ralph Murphy, J.B. Johnson, of Capron, Jack W. 
Nurney, J. Thornton Withers.  Honorary pallbearers were friends of the family.

   Among the out of town people attending the funeral services were Mrs. John 
Alden, Miss Judith Alden, Jack and Norman Alden, all of Washington, Mr. and 
Mrs. J.B. Johnson and Payton Smith of Capron, Mrs. Henley Parker and Mr. and 
Mrs. Harold Hudgins of Norfolk.


"Lunie" Luemma Virginia (PARKER; Mrs. Otis S. Sr.) SMITH, 
Suffolk native, d. 27 Jan 1937, Suffolk, age 76, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block C, Lot 10*), Suffolk, 29 Jan 1937, 
donated obit, publication unknown 

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


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