Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pettus, Bertie Sweet July 20, 1944 ************************************************ 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 https://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00034.html#0008405 September 7, 2016, 6:57 pm Norfolk Virginian Pilot Friday July 21, 1944 Mrs. Bertie Sweet Pettus, 72, widow of John Samuel Pettus, died Thursday morning at 6:45 o'clock at the residence, 1342 West Thirty-ninth street, A native of Sentronious,(Sempronius?) Cayuga County, New York, she had been a resident of Norfolk for the past 60 years. She was the daughter of the late Matthew Lines and Rocelia S. Sweet. She was a member of Martha Washington Lodge, D. of A. Mrs. Pettus is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Rocelia Warren, of Norfolk; three sons, W.H., Leroy V. and John C. Pettus, all of Norfolk, and a granddaughter. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the chapel of James V. Derry by the Rev. C.T. Topping, pastor of Old Zion Methodist Church. Interment will be in Elmwood Cemetery. Additional Comments: Elmwood File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/p/pettus12314gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb