Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Smith, Richard L., 1958 

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Richard Smith's Funeral Is Today 

  Funeral services for Richard Leonard Smith will be conducted today at 3:30 
p.m. at the Hill Funeral Home by tbe Rev. R.T. Grissom, pastor of Holy Neck 
Christian Church, and the Rev. George D. Alley, pastor of the Suffolk 
Christian Church.  Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. 

  Mr. Smith, 73, died Friday at 4:45 p.m. at his home 307 Cedar Street after 
a long illness. 

  He was a clerk for the Southern Oil Co. for 25 years until his retirement 
in 1946.  He was a member of the Holy Neck Christian Church. 

  The son of the late Oliver and Mrs. Laura Norfleet Smith, he was a native 
of Nansemond County. 

  Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Otis Howell Smith; two daughters, Mrs. Bryon 
White of Richmond, and Mrs. T.W. Morgan Jr. of Suffolk; one sister, Mrs. J. 
Emmett Hines of Suffolk; four grandchildren, Richard White of Roanoke; Miss 
Betty Lou White of Richmond; Thomas W. Morgan III and Robert S. Morgan, both 
of Suffolk. 


Richard Leonard SMITH, retired Southern Oil clerk, 
b. 1 Oct 1885, Somerton, Nansemond Co., d. 19 Dec 1958, at home, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block H, Lot 69*), Suffolk, 21 Dec 1958, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 36, No. 300, Sun., Dec. 21, 1958, p. 11 

*Additional information: 

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

A photo of his gravestone - added by Steve Poole - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #15709112. 

His parents are buried in the same lot, which his mother owned. 

D.Cert. 30796 (Suffolk #72) 

His mother-in-law, Eva Eliza (HOLLAND HOWELL) MORGAN, is buried 
   with her second husband in Holy Neck Christian Church Cemetery. 
   Holy Neck list, another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/holynk.txt 


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