Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Saunders, Frank A., 1951 

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Frank Saunders' Rites Tomorrow 

  Funeral services for Frank Austin Saunders, 66, local piano dealer and 
repair man, who died suddenly yesterday on an afternoon stroll, will be 
conducted tomorrow morning at 11 o'clock at the R.W. Baker Funeral Home 
by the Rev. Joseph S. Gresham. 

  Saunders collapsed on the Virginian Railroad track near Simpson's Restaurant 
while walking with his son, Frank Jr.  Young Saunders rushed to the nearest 
telephone and called Mrs. Saunders, who, in turn, summoned Dr. Edward C. 
Joyner. 

  The stricken man was dead when Dr. Joyner arrived, however. 

  Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Doris Saunders; one son. Frank A. Saunders, 
one daughter, Evelyn A. Saunders, all of this city; one brother, Walter A. 
Saunders of Milford, Mass.; one sister, Mrs. Warren E. Moore of East Holden, 
Maine; one niece, Mrs. Gladys McLaughlin, also of East Holden; and one nephew, 
Olin Saunders, of Yonkers, N.Y. 

  He was a member of the Oxford Methodist Church, of the John E. Martin Bible 
Class, and a member of Suffolk Lions Club. 

  Burial will be in Holly Lawn Cemetery. 

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Frank Saunders Buried Tuesday 

  Funeral services for Frank Austin Saunders, who died near this city Sunday 
afternoon, were conducted yesterday morning at the R.W. Baker Funeral Home by 
the Rev. Joseph S. Gresham and the Rev. Graham C. McChesney.  Burial was in 
Holly Lawn cemetery. 

  Pallbearers were O.L. Burkett, S.G. Howell, J. Melvin Lovelace, Dr. T. Wood 
Campbell, W.T. Pond, Paul van Valkenburgh, T.H. Birdsong, Jr., and Woodville 
Holton. 


Frank Austin SAUNDERS, piano dealer & repair man, 
b. 22 Feb 1896, Ellsworth, ME, d. 28 Jan 1951, Suffolk, 
interred in Holly Lawn Cemetery*, Suffolk, 30 Jan 1951, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 29, No. 24, Mon., Jan. 29, 1951, p. 3; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 29, No. 26, Wed., Jan. 31, 1951, p. 1 

*Additional information: 

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

A photo of his gravestone - added by Hixburg23958 - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #191584886. 

D.Cert. 1887 (Suffolk #326) gives son of Olin & Ella (CONARY) SAUNDERS. 


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