Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Hewitt, Mary Richardson April 12, 1936
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Norfolk Virginian Pilot April 13, 1936

                    INDIAN RIVER PARK WOMAN DIES, AGED 112

Mrs. Mary Hewitt, age 112, died at her residence, Indian River Park, Norfolk 
County, yesterday afternoon at 12:20 o'clock, after an illness of a month. Prior 
to that time, Mrs. Hewitt had been hale and hearty and was unusually active, 
despite her great age.  Many people throughout Tidewater have called on her from 
time to time to ask for her secret of longevity, and she was well known and 
highly esteemed.  However, she never allowed a picture to be taken of herself.
Mrs. Hewitt was a native of Pasquotank County, N.C., and had made her home in 
this section for 53 years.  She was a daughter of John and Nancy Pelph 
Richardson and was the widow of Silas Hewitt.  Surviving her are two daughters, 
Mrs. Thomas Humphries, of South Norfolk and Mrs. Mary Sawyer, of South Mills, 
N.C.; two brothers, William Richardson of South Mills, N.C. and John Richardson 
of New Bern, N.C.; 22 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren.
The body was removed to the Graham Funeral Home, Jackson and Jefferson Streets, 
South Norfolk, where funeral services will be conducted tomorrow afternoon at 4 
o'clock.  Burial will be in Magnolia Cemetery.
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Mrs. Mary Hewitt - Funeral services for Mrs. Hewitt, who died at her residence 
in Indian River Park, Norfolk County, Sunday, were conducted yesterday afternoon 
at 4 o'clock in the Graham Funeral Home, in South Norfolk.  The Rev. O.D. 
Poythress, pastor of the South Norfolk Christian Church, officiated and sang "On 
Jordan's Stormy Bank" and "Amazing Grace." The funeral was largely attended and 
the flowers were in profusion, the casket being covered with carnations and 
fern.
Pallbearers were Lum Sawyer, Carol Sawyer, Walter Sawyer, Herman Sawyer, Luther 
Hewitt, Erwin DeFord, Lindwood Williams and Coleman Ackiss.  Burial was in 
Magnolia Cemetery.

Norfolk Virginian Pilot April 15, 1936


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