Nansemond-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Underwood, Sandra A. GAY, 1970 

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SANDRA ANN GAY UNDERWOOD

   A funeral service for Mrs. Sandra Ann Underwood was conducted Monday at 2 
p.m. in the Church of God, 207 Kilby Ave., Suffolk, by the Rev. James Hughes. 
Burial was in Colosse Church Cemetery near Windsor with Purviance Funeral 
Home, Wakefield, in charge.

   Pallbearers were Joe Wilkins, Wayne King, Lynn Jolly, Jimmy Whitley, 
Willard Peden, and Johnnie Wayne Hedgepeth.

   Gene Thomas Underwood, a 24-year-old carpenter, has been charged with 
murder in the fatal shooting of his 18-year-old wife, Sandra Ann, at a 
Nansemond County residence Thursday night.

   Three shots from a .22 caliber pistol were fired about 9:05 p.m. Thursday 
at the rear of 1501 Holland Road, and one of them struck Mrs. Underwood in the 
left breast, said Deputy Sheriff Shannon Cisco.  She was dead on arrival at 
Obici Memorial Hospital.

   Cisco said the Underwoods, residents of 218˝ Chestnut St., Suffolk had 
driven with their daughter, Angela Ann, 4 months, to the home of Mr. 
Underwood’s sister, Mrs. Robert W. Bradshaw, and her husband at the Holland 
road address.  There was an argument, said Cisco, and Mrs. Underwood fell to 
the ground after being shot.

   Underwood is a carpenter employed by an Ivor contracting firm.

   Mrs. Underwood, a native of Isle of Wight County, was a daughter of Raymond 
A. and Doris Griffin Gay of Smithfield.  In addition to her husband, daughter 
and parents, she is survived by four brothers, Army Spec. 4 Raymond P. Gay of 
Anchorage, Alaska, and Dennis A., Wayne E. and Ronald Earl Gay of Smithfield.


Sandra Ann (GAY; Mrs. Gene T.) UNDERWOOD, 
Isle of Wight Co. native, murdered 26 Feb 1970, Nansemond Co., age 18, 
interred in Colosse Baptist Church Cemetery*, Collosse, 2 Mar 1970, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 5, 1970 

*Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #44: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 


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