Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Sykes, Mary Elizabeth Gornto May 19, 1929 ************************************************ 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 http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00034.html#0008405 April 18, 2024, 5:48 pm Virginian Pilot and The Norfolk Landmark May 21, 1929 Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Sykes, aged 78, widow of W.R. Sykes, died at 11:35 o'clock Sunday night at the residence of her son-in-law, J.W. Siebert, 634 West Thirty- seventh Street. She was a daughter of the late Edmund R. and Mary Ellen Gornto, was a native of Norfolk County, and had been a resident of the city for 50 years. Surviving her are one daughter, Mrs. Siebert; two sons, W.E. Sykes, of Norfolk and Emmett Sykes, of Judsonia, Ark. and one brother, Charles Gornto, of Hampton. Funeral services will be held at the Siebert residence this afternoon at 3 o'clock, the Rev. L.E. Smith, D.D., pastor of the Christian Temple, officiating. Interment will be in Elmwood Cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/s/sykes11060nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/vafiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb