Nansemond County-Suffolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Whitmore, Helen C. Howell, 1993 

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HELEN CONWAY HOWELL WHITMORE 

  SUFFOLK - Helen C. Whitmore, 85, the widow of J.W. Whitmore, died Nov. 10, 
1993.

  She was a member of First Baptist Church.

  Survivors include two daughters, Jo Ann Eley of Suffolk and Melba Collette 
of Knoxville, Tenn.; three sons, Fred Whitmore, Robert Whitmore and Charles 
Whitmore, all of Suffolk; two sisters, Margaret Stephenson of Suffolk and 
Sarah Clark of Richmond; two brothers William C. Howell, Jr. of Richmond and 
Charles R. Howell of Sacramento, Calif.; 11 grandchildren; and eight great-
grandchldren.

  Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday in First Baptist Church 
by the Rev. Charles Thompson with burial in Cedar Hill Cemetery.  The family 
will received friends tonight from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in R.W. Baker & Co. Funeral 
Home, and at 403 Lakeland Ave. at other times.


Helen Conway (HOWELL; Mrs. Joseph Wesley) WHITMORE, 
b. 8 Feb 1908, Surry Co., d. 10 Nov 1993, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block G, Lot 78*), Suffolk, 12 Nov 1993, 
"Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Nov. 11, 1993 

*Her parents, William Conway & "Sadie" Sarah Elizabeth (HILTNER) HOWELL, 
   and paternal grandparents are buried in the same lot. 
   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 husband's obit ("Sussex-Surry Dispatch," May 6, 1973) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/w356j2ob.txt 

Her paternal grandfather, William Henry Harrison HOWELL, was a Confederate 
   veteran having served as a 2nd Corporal in Co. A, 16th VA Infantry, CSA. 
   Her paternal grandmother, Worthy Ann (HENDERSON) HOWELL, applied for a 
   Confederate widow's pension 29 Sep 1928. 


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and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
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