Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Saunders, Augusta E. Parker, 1945 

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AUGUSTA E. PARKER SAUNDERS 

MRS. SAUNDERS DIES, AGED 82 

  Suffolk, Nov. 28 - Mrs. Augusta Parker Saunders, 82, widow of Benjamin L. 
Saunders and member of an old and prominent Nansemond county family, died this 
morning at 4:45 o’clock at her home, 204 South Saratoga Street, after a long 
illness. 

  She was the daughter of Dr. Richard E. Parker, for many years a widely known 
physician of this community, and Mrs. Sarah Franklin Parker, and had spent her 
life in Suffolk.  She was a member of West End Baptist Church. 

  Surviving her are a son, Leon Saunders, who made his home with his mother; 
two daughters, Mrs. William M. Crumpler, St., and Mrs. Alvin Grant, all of 
Suffolk; four grandchildren, William M. Crumpler, Jr., Misses Barbara and Jane 
Grant and Margaret Saunders, and a great-granddaughter, Miss Viola Janice 
Crumpler; three sisters, Mrs. Etta E. Brooks, of Sunbury, N.C.; Mrs. Frank L. 
Nicholson, of Norfolk, and Miss Minie Parker, of Suffolk. 

  Funeral services will be conducted at the grave in Cedar Hill Cemetery 
Thursday at 3:30 p.m. with Dr. Samuel T. Habel, pastor of West End Baptist 
Church, officiating. 

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Saunders Rites Are Held Today 

  SUFFOLK, Nov. 29. - Funeral services for Mrs. Augusta Parker Saunders were 
conducted at 3:30 p.m. today at the grave in Cedar Hill Cemetery by Dr. S.T. 
Habel, pastor of the West End Baptist Church.  Dr. Habel read the hymn, "The 
Old Rugged Cross." 

  The casket was covered with a pall of red roses and active pallbearers were 
E.E. Jones, J.R. Vann, George F. Whitley, Jesse A. Harrell, M.L. Bowden, Olin 
Hines, R.P. Boyer and Floyd Oliver.  Friends of the family served as honorary 
pallbearers. 


Augusta E.* (PARKER; Mrs. Benjamin L.) SAUNDERS, 
b. 2 Nov 1863, Nansemond Co., d. 28 Nov 1945, at home, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block E, Lot 6*), Suffolk, 29 Nov 1945, 
"Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Thurs., Nov. 29, 1945, p. 19; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 30, No. 424, Thurs., Nov. 29, 1945, p. 3 

*Additional information: 

His parents are buried in adjacent Block F, Lot 155; his paternal grandfather 
   Grantham W. REYNOLDS is marked in Block D, Lot 114. 
   Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_s.txt 

Photos of her gravestone & plot - added by Jake Dog - are posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #123050215, which gives Augusta Ethridge. 

Her parents are buried in Block A, Lot 24: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_p.txt 

D.Cert. 23681 (Suffolk #336) gives Agusta Eskridge. 

Her husband's obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," Oct. 25, 1940, pp. 1 & 8) 
   is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/s536b1ob.txt 


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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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