Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Baker, Godwin P., 1957 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ GODWIN PATRICK BAKER GODWIN P. BAKER Funeral services for Godwin Patrick Baker, 66, who died Monday morning August 5, at his home in Handsom, were conducted Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in the chapel of the W.J.M Holland and Sons Funeral Home. Rev. Claude F. Moseley, pastor of Colonial Avenue Methodist Church, Norfolk, and a former pastor of Mt. Horeb Methodist Church, conducted the service. He was assisted by Rev. O.L. Gochenour, pastor of the Newsoms Methodist Church. Mr. Baker, who as the husband of Mrs. Mary Lena Johnson Baker, was a former resident of Norfolk, having moved to Handson just a week ago. For 40 years he was a telegraph operator for the Seaboard Railroad. He was a memer of Colonial Avenue Methodist Church, Norfolk. Besides his wife he is survived by a brother, J.Grover Baker of Norfolk and a number of nieces and nephews. Burial was in Mt. Horeb Church Cemetery. Active pallbearers were L.L. Johnson, E.T. Johnson, Jr., E.R. Johnson, Jr., Cleveland Babb and Raymond Mason. [Godwin Patrick BAKER, d. 5 Aug 1957, age 66, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), 9 Aug 1957] [file transcribed by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager.]