Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Babb, Benjamin F. Jr., 1959 

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BENJAMIN FRANKLIN BABB, JR. 

BENJAMIN F. BABB, PROMINENT CITIZEN BURIED TODAY 

   IVOR - Funeral services for Benjamin Franklin Babb, who died Tuesday, were 
conducted today at 3 p.m. 

   Officiating was the Rev. L.P. Bland, pastor of the Ivor Methodist Church, 
of which he was a member.  Burial was in the Ivor Cemetery. 

   A lifelong resident of Ivor, he had been in the gasoline station business 
since 1935.  He was a member of the Ivor Town Council, past president of the 
Ivor Ruritan Club, past master of the Ivor Masonic Lodge and veteran of World 
War II.  He attended the College of William and Mary. 

   The body was taken from the Purviance Funeral Home in Wakefield to the 
church at 1 p.m. Masonic rites were conducted. 

   Mr. Babb was 50 years old, the son of the late Dr. B.F. Babb and Mrs. 
Bertha White Babb. 

   Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Leonor Riopel Babb; two sisters, Mrs. L.G. 
Conner of Norfolk; and Mrs. Gordon R. Smith of Richmond; two brothers, 
Charlie W. Babb of Norfolk and Shelton H. Babb of Ivor. 


Benjamin Franklin BABB, Jr., service station operator, WW-II veteran, 
lifelong resident of Ivor, d. 31 Mar 1959, Ivor, age 50, 
interred in Ivor Cemetery*, 2 Apr 1959, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 2, 1941, Sect. I, p. 8 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Ivor list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/ivor.txt 

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," Apr. 4, 1941, p. 10) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b100b3ob.txt 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Oct. 15, 1953) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b100b4ob.txt 


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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b100b5ob.txt