Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Edwards, Martha Torksey September 26, 1940 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Dorothy Strawhand http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00034.html#0008405 September 3, 2022, 7:29 pm Norfolk Virginian Pilot September 27, 1940 Mrs. Martha Torksey Edwards, aged 70, widow of John A. Edwards, daughter of William J. and Mrs. Emily Jane Torksey, a native of Driver and a resident of Norfolk since early childhood, died at a local hospital yesterday morning at 5:40 o'clock after a long illness. She is survived by one sister, Mrs. Robert H. Elliott, of Columbus, O. and a number of nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be conducted at the Ewell & Williamson Funeral Home, Thirty-fifth Street at Colonial Avenue, tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock. The Rev. Henry A. Harrell, D.D., pastor of the Ocean View Methodist Church of which Mrs. Edwards was a member, will officiate. Interment will be in Elmwood Cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/e/edwards4582nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/vafiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb