Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Wright, George L., 1950 

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Rites Pending For George L. Wright 

  Funeral services for George Lemuel Wright, 76, a resident of Magnolia, who 
died last night at the United States Naval Hospital in Portsmouth after a long 
illness, will be held tomorrow afternoon at 5 o’clock at the Hill Funeral 
Home.  The Rev. R.E. Brittle and the Rev. John Kibler will officiate.  Burial 
take place in Cedar Hill Cemetery. 

  He was a son of the late Frank and Frances Mumford [sic; Munford*] Wright of 
Nansemond County. 

  Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Ida Corbitt Wright; five daughters, Mrs. 
Daniel Brinkley and Mrs. Lee Brinkley, both of Cypress Chapel, Mrs. Edgar 
Owens of Magnolia, Mrs. Clyde L. Wise of Washington, D.C. and Mrs. Marion 
Jones of Norfolk; two sons, Major H.L. Wright, Station Hospital, Fort Benning, 
Georgia, and G.W. Wright, Washington, D. C.; 15 grandchildren. 

  He was a member of the Bethlehem Christian Church. 

  The body was taken to the I.O. Hill Funeral Home to be prepared for burial. 

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Rites Held For George L. Wright 

  Funeral services for George Lemuel Wright, a resident of Magnolia who died 
Wednesday night at the Naval Hospital in Portsmouth, were held Friday 
afternoon at 4 o'clock at the Hill Funeral Home with the Rev. R.E. Brittle 
and the Rev. John L. Kibler, Jr., officiating. 

  Mrs. T.A. Poole, Mrs. Dudley Joyner, Paul Parker and the Rev. Brittle, 
accompanied by Mrs. Julian Goodwin, sang "In the Sweet, Bye and Bye" and 
"The Old Rugged Cross."  Paul Parker sang "Sunrise" as a solo.  The Rev. 
Brittle read the poems "The Christian's Goodnight'' and "Crossing the Bar." 

  The pall was of pink and white carnations, white gladioli and Easter lilies. 

  Active pallbearers were J.L. Babb, Frank Culpepper, Sr., H.H. Williams, D.T. 
Gardner, C.W. King, G.W. Byrum, W.C. Morgan and Willie Oliver.  Honorary 
pallbearers were members of the Wesley Bible Class of the Magnolia Methodist 
Church. 

  Interment followed in Cedar Hill Cemetery. 


George Lemuel WRIGHT, of Magnolia, farmer, 
b. 18 Oct 1874, Nansemond Co., d. 24 May 1950, Portsmouth, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery**, Suffolk, 26 May 1950, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 27, No. 44, May 25, 1950, p. 3, col. 4; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 27, No. 46, May 28, 1950, p. 1, col. 6 

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

*His mother, Frances D. (MUNFORD; Mrs. Columbus Franklin Lafayette "Frank") 
   WRIGHT, d. 21 Nov 1914 in Suffolk, and was buried the next day in 
   Nansemond Co. - site not known (Dec 2020) to the SCHS Cemetery Project. 
   D.Cert. 25959 (Suffolk #139) gives daughter of Dempsey Mumford & Lucy A. 
   Stivenson [sic; STEPHENSON].  Her maiden name was then spelled MOUNTFORD. 


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