Nansemond-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....White, Ellen Babb, 1956 

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ELLEN BABB WHITE

   SUFFOLK - Mrs. Ellen Babb White, wife of Lewis R. (Dick) White, athletic 
director of the Suffolk High School, died today at 6:30 a.m. at the Obici 
Memorial Hospital after a short illness.  She was 49 years old.

   Miss White had been in the teaching profession for more than 20 years, 
having taught before her marriage in the Courtland High School, and for five 
years in the Suffolk High School, where she headed the mathematics department 
at the time of her death.

   She was a sponsor of the Civic Samertian Tri-Hi Y Club at the School and 
the 8th Grade sponsor.  She was also a member of the Main Street Methodist 
Church and the daughter of the late Dr. Benjamin Franklin Babb and Bertha 
White Babb, of Ivor.

   Survivors in addition to her husband are a daughter, Alice L. White, two 
sons, Lewis R. White, Jr., and Herbert Franklin White, all of Suffolk; two 
sisters, Mrs. Lula May Conner of Norfolk, and Mrs. Bertha White Smith of 
Richmond; three brothers, Charles Babb of Norfolk, Benjamin F. Babb, Jr., and 
Shelton H. Babb of Ivor.

   Funeral services will be conducted at 4 p.m. Sunday at the Main Street 
Methodist Church by the Rev. George S. Lightner, pastor. The body will be taken 
from the Baker Funeral Home to the church one hour before the funeral services.

   Members of the Suffolk Educational Association and the Civic Samertian 
Tri-Hi Y are requested to attend the services in a group.


Ellen (BABB; Mrs. Lewis R. "Dick" Sr.) WHITE, 
Suffolk High School teacher, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 26 May 1956, Suffolk, age 49, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery*, Suffolk, 
donated obit, newspaper unknown 

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

Her parents are buried in Ivor Cemetery. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Ivor list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/ivor.txt 

Her father is also marked with his first wife in the Corinth Friends Cemetery. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 1 (I-1): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol1.txt 


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