Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bedford, Emmett O., 1981 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ EMMETT ORVIN BEDFORD FRANKLIN - A funeral service for Emmett O. Bedford, 76, was held Monday at 3 p.m. in Southampton Memorial Park by the Revs. Richard T. Dickmann and Waverly Horne. Wright Funeral Home was in charge. Pallbearers were: Jesse Harrison, Jimmy Bryant, N.T. Duck, Bill Hastings, Guy Picot, Buck Dickens, William Drewry, Ed Blythe and Henry Bryant. Bedford died Saturday in Southampton Memorial Hospital. A native of Goldsboro, N.C., he was the husband of Mrs. Hannah Crawley Bedford. He was a retired agent of Citizens Home Insurance Co. He was a Baptist. Other survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Carole Goldstein of West Bloomfield, Mich.; a son, Kenneth G. Bedford of Franklin; and three grandchildren. [Emmett Orvin BEDFORD, retired insurance agent, Goldsboro, NC native, d. 17 Oct 1981, Franklin, age 76, interred in Southampton Memorial Park (Christus I, Plot 30), 19 Oct 1981, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 22, 1981, p. 9A] 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/b316e1ob.txt