Nansemond-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Wills, Richenda L. Joyner, 1936 

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WILLS FUNERAL TO TAKE PLACE FRIDAY 

Widow of Matthew Wills Succumbs Here At Age 86 

  Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. tomorrow for Mrs. Richenda Louise 
Wills, 86, widow of Matthew M. [sic; A.] Wills, who died yesterday at the 
home of her daughter, Mrs. C.A. Bradshaw, 122 Hill street.  The rites will 
be conducted at the Bradshaw residence and burial will follow in Cedar Hill 
cemetery. 

  Mrs. Wills is survived by eight children: Mrs. Bradshaw and J.R. Wills, of 
Suffolk; M.M. Wills, of Norfolk; Mrs. W.D. Nelms and Mrs. C.C. Robertson, of 
Isle of Wight county; Mrs. W.R. Johnson and T.A.* Wills, of Windsor; and A.T. 
Wills, of Zuni.  Also surviving are 33 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; 
and a brother, W.L. Joyner, of Franklin. 

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MORTUARY 

MRS. RICHINDA [sic; RICHENDA*] WILLS 

  Funeral services for Mrs. Richinda Louise Wills were held at the home of her 
daughter, Mrs. C.A. Bradshaw, at 3 p.m. Friday, conducted by the Rev. Dr. H.J. 
Goodwin, the Rev. Dr. John G. Truitt and the Rev. Dr. I.W. Johnson. 

  Burial was in Cedar Hill cemetery. 

  Active pallbearers, grandsons of the deceased, were Victor Wills, Eugene 
Wills, Francis Wills, Herbert Bradshaw, Linwood Bradshaw, Cleveland Jenkins, 
August Jenkins and William Nelms. 

  Honorary pallbearers were W.W. Butler, J.E. Uzzell, Ben Griffin, W.T. 
Joyner, L. Bailey, George Gardner, Wilbur Pierce, Charles Smith and Fermer 
Perry. 


Richenda Louise (JOYNER; Mrs. Matthew Anthony [II]) WILLS, 
b. 22 Sep 1850, Southampton Co., d. 21 Oct 1936, at daughter's home, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block I, Lot 63*), Suffolk, 23 Oct 1936, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 14, No. 180, Thurs., Oct. 22, 1936, p. 8; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 14, No. 182, Sat., Oct. 24, 1936, p. 8 

*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, added by Steve Poole, of her gravestone, which shows Richinda, and 
   another, added by Davis, of her & her husband, are posted with Find a Grave 
   Memorial #7358379. 

D.Cert. 24658 (Suffolk #336) 

Her husband's obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," Aug. 14, 1934, p. 8) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/w420m4ob.txt 

Her parents, Jas. Amos & Martha G. (TAYLOR) JOYNER, are buried in a JOYNER 
   family cemetery, location unknown.  
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 8 (MV-VIII-31): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol8.txt 


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