Southampton-Gloucester County-Portsmouth City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Beaton, Mattie Ritter, 1981 

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MATTIE RITTER BEATON

   GLOUCESTER  POINT - Funeral services for Mattie Ritter Beaton, 93, were 
held Friday in Bethany United Methodist Church by the Rev. James Ward and 
Arthur Ayers. Burial was in Poplar Spring cemetery, Franklin, with the Rev. 
J.W. Horne Jr., officiant.

   Beaton died Wednesday in Sanders Nursing Home, Gloucester.

   She was a native of Southampton County and the widow of Livious L. Beaton. 
She was a member of Bethany United Methodist Church, Gloucester Point.

   Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Robert W. Jordan of Gloucester Point; 
three sisters, Mrs. Emmett Johnson of Handsom, Mrs. Gus Frenkel of St. 
Petersburg, Fla. and Mrs. W.G.T. Tuttle of Richmond; a brother, Howard L. 
Ritter of Windsor; two grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.


Martha Judson "Mattie" (RITTER; Mrs. Livious L.) BEATON, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 7 Jan 1981, Gloucester, age 93, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 54B*), Franklin, 
   9 Jan 1981, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 12, 1981 

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

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Jan. 19, 1951, p. 5), with their 
   marriage record appended, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b350l1ob.txt 

Mattie was the daughter of George Washington RITTER (1856-1937) and 
   his second wife Wilsey Catherine (LOWE).  Records of all three of his 
   marriages are appended to his obit ("Tidewater News," Oct. 15, 1937, p. 7) 
   posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/r360g1ob.txt 

The obit of her brother Raleigh Richardson RITTER ("Tidewater News," 
   Nov. 14, 1919, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/r360r1ob.txt 

The obit of her half-brother Joseph Martin RITTER ("Tidewater News" 
   Sep. 17, 1970) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/r360j1ob.txt 


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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. 

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