Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Spry, Annie Jackson Shipley February 8, 1945
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Norfolk Virginian Pilot February 9, 1945

                       Mrs. Annie Spry, Aged 81, Dies

Mrs. Annie Jackson Spry, 81, one of the best known women in the Southside, 
died yesterday morning at the family residence, 213 East Indian River Road, 
after an illness of about a year.  She was the widow of Capt. Rufus K. Spry, 
also an outstanding citizen and business man.
Mr. and Mrs. Spry were the founders, 43 years ago, of the R.K. Spry grocery 
at about the same place as the present store.
She was a prominent member of Armstrong Memorial Presbyterian Church and was 
active in its organization.
Mrs. Spry and her husband were life residents of this section and were known 
in the community for their charity to those in need.  She was the daughter 
of the late Walter and Hattie Sparrow Shipley.
Surviving her are a daughter, Mrs. W.E. Brite; one son, Rufus K. Spry; one 
sister, Mrs. Daisy Grimes; one brother, James Shipley, all of Norfolk; seven 
grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
The body was taken to the Graham Funeral Home, South Norfolk. Sunday 
afternoon the body will be taken to the Armstrong Church where it will lie 
in state for one hour before the funeral at 3:30 o'clock.
Burial will be in the family lot in Magnolia Cemetery.

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