Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Whitley, Willie E. Blanchard, 1946 

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Mrs. W.E.B. Whitley Dies of Hurts In Auto Accident 

  Mrs. Willie Etta Blanchard Whitley, 33, of Suffolk died at DePaul Hospital 
September 1st of injuries sustained in a highway accident near Suffolk Friday 
night, in the first casualty reported over the Labor Day weekend. 

  Mrs. Whitley was driving on the Windsor highway about 11:30 PM when her car 
was in collision with an automobile driven by Zach Copeland, Negro, who was 
returning to Suffolk from a road house on the Windsor highway, State Police 
reported.  Copeland and Ruth Pleasants, Negro, and David Mason, Negro, both 
passengers in the Copeland car, also were severely injured and were confined 
to the Suffolk Community Hospital. 

  Mrs. Whitley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George W. Blanchard of Portsmouth, 
was an employee of the Peanut City Inn and was widely known among patrons of 
the establishment. 

  Besides her parents she is survived by a son, Billy Whitley of Isle of Wight 
County; six sisters, Mrs. C.J. Warren of Whaleyville; Mrs. E.K. Ward and Mrs. 
J.L. Wood of Nansemond County; Mrs. L.P. Prescott of Tacoma, Wash.; Mrs. 
Edward Doughtie of Portsmouth and Mrs. J.T. Baggett of Nansemond County and 
two brothers, Leslie E. Blanchard of Edenton, N.C., and Murray R. Blanchard of 
Nansemond County. 

  The body was taken to the I.O. Hill & Co. funeral home, where services were 
held with the Rev. J. Lester Lane, pastor of the First Baptist Church 
officiating.  Burial was in Cedar Hill Cemetery. 


Willie Etta (BLANCHARD; Mrs. Richard L. Jr.) WHITLEY, 
   Peanut City Inn waitress, 
b. 25 Aug 1913, Chowan Co., NC, d. 30 Aug 1946, Norfolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery*, Suffolk, 31 May 1946, 
"Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 28, No. 15, Wed., Sep. 4, 1946, p. 1 

*Additional information: 

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

A photo of her gravestone - added by Steve Poole - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #94783389. 

Her in-laws are also buried there. 

D.Cert. 16786 (Norfolk #1500) 

Her parents are buried in Holly Lawn Cemetery, Suffolk - Block I, Section 10. 
   Holly Lawn list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/hollyln.txt 

Her father's obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," Nov. 17, 1952, p. 2) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/b452g1ob.txt 

Her ex-husband is entombed in Meadowbrook Memorial Gardens, Driver. 


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