Newport News City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Duke, Rosa V. Howell, 1948 

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ROSE VIRGINIA HOWELL CLATTERBAUGH DUKE 

MRS. R.T. DUKE SUCCUMBS AFTER LENGTH ILLESS 

  Mrs. Rosa Virginia Duke, 52, of 1021 24th St., died at 6:30 last night in 
University Hospital, Charlottesville, after an illness of four months.

  She was a native of Princeton, W.Va. and a member of the First 
Congregational Christian Church, the Woman’s Auxiliary and the Progressive 
Bible Class of the church.

  Besides her husband, R.T. Duke, she is survived by her mother, Mrs. Lucy 
Ellen Howell of Newport News; a son, Harold R. Clatterbaugh of Covington, a 
daughter, Mrs. Ira P. Pyle of Covington; five sisters, Mrs. J.C. Massie, and 
Mrs. W.C. Stone, both of Newport News, Mrs. Frank P. Cerutti of Charleston, 
W.Va., Mrs. W.W. Buns of Clifton Forge and Mrs. I.H. Snodgrass of Key Rock, 
W.Va.; two brothers, Arthur Q. Howell of Bluefield, and Woodrow W. Howell of 
Lexington; two step-son, Richard T. Duke, Jr., of Newport News, and Charles 
Frederick Duke of Dearborne, Mich.; four grandchildren and several nieces and 
nephews.

  Funeral services will be held at 3 Sunday afternoon at First Congregational 
Christian Church.

  Rev. H.S. Hardcastle, D.D., pastor, will officiate, assited by the Rev. 
William A. Edwards of Copeland Park Baptist Church.

  Burial will be in Greenlawn Cemetery.

  Active pallbearers will be J.M. Peach, G.G. Givens, J.B. Saunders, J.H. 
Skinner, J.W. Holland and W.J. Hudson.


Rosa Virginia (HOWELL CLATTERBAUGH; Mrs. Richard T. Sr.) DUKE, 
b. 2 Nov 1896, Princeton, WV, d. 2 Dec 1948, Charlottesville, 
interred in Greenlawn Cemetery*, Newport News, 5 Dec 1948, 
donated obit, publication unknown 

*Additional information: 

Birthdate &c. from Find a Grave Mem. #84985248 

Her husband remarried.  His obit ("Daily Press," Feb. 3, 1959, p. 8) 
   is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/newportnews/obits/d200r5ob.txt 


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