Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Walker, Laura Virginia Jones July 14, 1910
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Virginian Pilot July 15, 1910
                      MRS. LAURA V. WALKER DEAD

Mrs. Laura Virginia Walker, wife of Cornelius E. Walker, died yesterday morning at 
5:10 o'clock at the family residence, 152 N. Main Street, after a lingering 
illness of several years.
She was a native of Diwiddie County, Va., but had been a resident of Berkley for 
thirty-three years.  She was in the 58th year of her age.
During her residence here she had become well known as a most estimable lady and 
had won herself a host of friends in whose recollection she will linger as one 
who  beautified the pathway of life for those about her as well as herself.
The deceased was a daughter of the late Phillip Greenhill and Mrs. Sarah Eliza 
Jones, well known and esteemed citizens of Dinwiddie County.
In addition to her husband the deceased is survived by four chlldren-- C.E. 
Walker, Jr., Miss Lula Walker, Mrs. Pearl Hinman and Mrs. Mary C. Hendren, all 
of this city.
She was a beloved member of the Berkley Avenue Baptist Church, from which place 
the funeral service will be conducted this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Rev. W.A. 
Smith, pastor of the church, will officiate and the interment will be in 
Magnolia Cemetery.
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The funeral of the late Mrs. Laura Virginia Walker, wife of Cornelius E. Walker, 
of 152 N. Main Street, was conducted from the Berkley Avenue Baptist Church 
yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock and was very largely attended.  Rev. W.A. Smith 
was the officiating minister.  The floral tributes were numerous and beautiful.  
The remains were laid to rest in Magnolia Cemetery.  The pallbearers were: 
Messrs. George T. Wrenn, John Cuthrell, C.W. Davis, L. Berkley, Edward M. 
Graves, James F. Tatem, W.J. Brown and H.E. Murray.

Virginian Pilot July 16, 1910

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