Norfolk City-Princess Anne County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Smith, Georgianna Williamson September 26, 1955
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Norfolk Vriginian Pilot Tuesday September 27, 1955
Mrs. Walter T. Smith, 96, of Kempsville, died yesterday at 4:15 a.m. in a 
Norfolk hospital.  Unusually active for her years, she was taken ill last 
Thursday.  Known to her friends as "Miss Georgia", she was to have celebrated 
her 97th birthday Monday.  She was the widow of Walter Thomas Smith and one of 
the oldest residents of the county and the oldest member of the Kempsville 
Baptist Church.
A native of Kemps Landing, Mrs. Smith was a daughter of George Williamson and 
Mrs. Emaline Marchant Williamson.
She resided at the home of her daughter, her only survivor, Mrs. Lucille 
Crews, at Kempsville.
Religious work was the main activity of Mrs. Smith's long life.  She was a 
member of the Kempsville Baptist Church for 84 years, taught Sunday school for 
40 years and was organist of the church for 20 years.  A circle of the Woman's 
Missionary Society was named in her honor.  She also was a member of the Three 
Score and Ten Club of Norfolk
Mrs. Smith described as thrilling her first airplane ride at the age of 95 in 
July, 1954, when she flew to Washington, D.C.
She also liked to recall her baptism in the river at Whitehurst Landing.  On 
her 90th birthday celebraton in the church in 1948, the pastor gave her time 
during the morning service to thank her friends for their expressions of 
regard and gifts to her.
Mrs. Smith was married at the age of 32.  Her husband died 40 years later.
Funeral services will be conducted at the Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home tomorrow 
at 3 p.m.  Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery.


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