Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Boyette, Virgie Edwards, 1970 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ VIRGIE EDWARDS BOYETTE NEWSOMS - A funeral service for Mrs. Virgie Edwards Boyette was conducted Saturday at 2:30 p.m. in McDowell Funeral Home, Boykins, by the Rev. Harry Bunch. Burial was in Newsoms Cemetery. Pallbearers were Ralph Barrett, George Evans, Joseph Everett, Marshall Vick, Jack Trew, Ned Evans, W.H. Snead, and Harry Barrett Jr. Mrs. Boyette, 76, died Thursday evening in her home. A native of Hertford County, N.C., she was a daughter of Richard and Mrs. Mary Stringfield Edwards and the widow of Robert Francis Boyette. She was a member of Barnes United Methodist Church and Newsoms Woman’s Christian Temperance Union. She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Catherine Cobb of Newsoms; and a granddaughter, Mrs. Kay Grizzard of Richmond. Virgie O. (EDWARDS; Mrs. Robert F.) BOYETTE, Hertford Co., NC native, d. 7 May 1970, at home, Newsoms, age 76, interred in Hollywood Cemetery*, Newsoms, 9 May 1970, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 14, 1970 *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Hollywood list (N-5): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/hollywd.txt Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Jan. 19, 1956, I-4) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b300r5ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b300v1ob.txt