Southampton County-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Beach, Elizabeth R. Griffith, 1951 

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ELIZABETH REBECCA GRIFFITH BEACH

MRS. ELIZABETH BEACH

   Mrs. Elizabeth Rebecca Griffith Beach, 76, widow of Henry Hassell Beach, a 
native of Cumberland, Md., and a resident of Norfolk for the past five years, 
died Saturday morning, April 21, at the home in Norfolk of her daughter, Mrs. 
Calvin Edwards, after several months of illness.  She was a member of Epworth 
Methodist Church, Norfolk.

   She is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Calvin Edwards of Norfolk; one son, 
Harry Beach of Philadelphia, Pa.; and a number of grandchildren.

   Funeral services were conducted at the graveside in Poplar Spring Cemetery 
on Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock by Rev. Elmer N. Hassell, pastor of High 
Street Methodist Church.  The pallbearers were C.C. Blythe, Jr., Irvin Blythe, 
R. Van Carpenter, Clyde Edwards, E.W. Holt and V.C. Lankford, Jr.

   Mrs. Beach and her husband lived in Franklin for several years, Mr. Beach 
having a shoe repair shop on E. First Avenue.


Elizabeth Rebecca (GRIFFITH; Mrs. Henry H.) BEACH, of Norfolk, 
Cumberland, MD native, d. 21 Apr 1951, at daughter's home, Norfolk, age 76, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 89A*), Franklin, 
   22 Apr 1951, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 27, 1951, p. 7 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 


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