Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Overton, Melissa Jane October 4, 1937 ************************************************ 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: Diane Renfrow dianel14@gmail.com September 10, 2013, 8:04 am Virginian Pilot, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 1937 Melissa Jane Overton - aged 78, wife of Leonard M. Overton and daughter of Nathaniel and Martha Shepherd North, died at a local hospital yesterday afternoon at 2:45 o’clock after a long illness. She was a native of Pitt County, NC, and had been a resident of Norfolk 44 years. Besides her husband, she is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Myrtle Webb, of Kilmarnock, VA; two sons, J. Lloyd Ballard, Sr., and Leon O. Ballard, both of Norfolk; a half sister, Mrs. J. W. Cotton, of Norfolk; three grandchildren, Capt. J. Lloyd Ballard, Jr., Mrs Evelyn Nowitzky and William Lannagan; six great-grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews. Mrs. Overton was a member of Spurgeon Memorial Baptist Church and Virginia Chapter No. 22, Order of Eastern Star. Funeral services will be conducted at the Ewell & Williamson Funeral Home, Thirty-fifth street at Colonial avenue, tomorrow afternoon 2:30 o’clock. Interment will be in Magnolia Cemetery. Additional Comments: Magnolia Cemetery OVERTON, MELISA J I2862 Block 11, Lot 2, Space 2ND FROM N SIDE W ROW 0 10/03/1937 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/o/overton3248gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb