Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Baker, Bessie Grissom, 1982 

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BESSIE GRISSOM BAKER

   COURTLAND - A funeral service for Bessie Grissom Baker, 74, was held 
Sunday, Nov. 21 at 2 p.m. in Courtland Baptist Church.  Burial was in 
Riverside Cemetery, Courtland, with Wright Funeral Home in charge.

   Pallbearers were: Larry Kitchen, Vance Kitchen, Edward Grissom, Preston 
Grissom, Richard Baker Jr., Thomas Britt, Charlie Saunders and Ernest Wilson.

   Mrs. Baker died Friday night in Southampton Memorial Hospital.

   A native of Hertford County, N.C., she graduated from East Carolina 
University and started teaching English in the Haroldsville, N.C. school 
system in 1932.

   Mrs. Baker taught French, English and Latin at Courtland High School for 
15 years beginning in 1945.  She taught eight years at Brunswick Academy in 
Lawrenceville and three years at Nansemond-Suffolk Academy in Suffolk.  She 
retired in 1971.

   She was a member of Courtland Baptist Church and taught Sunday school for 
many years.

   Survivors include a daughter Lilly Gray B. Ketner of North Augusta, S.C.; 
a son, C.C. Baker Jr. of Courtland; two sisters, Mrs. Cornelia G. Gordon of 
Rocky Mount, N.C. and Adiline G. Kitchen of Courtland; and a brother, J. 
Lineberry Grissom of Courtland.


Bessie (GRISSOM; Mrs. Charlie C. {Sr.}) BAKER, retired teacher, 
Hertford Co., NC native, d. 19 Nov 1982, Franklin, age 74, 
interred in Riverside Cemetery (Section I, Plot 41*), Courtland, 
   21 Nov 1982, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 25, 1982, p. 7A 

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

Her husband's obit ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," Mar. 15, 1977, p. 32) 
   is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b260c1ob.txt 

Her father's obit ("Tidewater News," Apr. 30, 1948, p. 14) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/g625e1ob.txt 

Her mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Nov. 11, 1949, p. 15) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/g625b1ob.txt 


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