Southampton-Albemarle County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Beale, Mildred Lea, 1972 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ MILDRED LEA BEALE A funeral service for Mrs. Mildred Lea Beale, 44, of Rt. 2, Franklin, was held Saturday at 2 p.m. in Emmanuel Episcopal Church by the Rev. Ben R. Duffy. Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery, W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home had charge. Mrs. Beale died Thursday at 11:30 p.m. in Southampton Memorial Hospital after a long illness. A native of Albemarle County, she had resided in this area for 20 years, and previously resided in Richmond. She was the wife of Leland E. Beale, Jr. and a daughter of Stanley R. Lea and the late Mrs. Mildred Porter Lea. She was a member of Emmanuel Episcopal Church. A graduate of Stratford College in Danville, Va., she was vice president of Southampton Hospital Auxiliary, and a member of the Board of Directors of the Greater Tidewater Area Council of the Girl Scouts. Besides her husband and father, she is survived by her step-mother, Mrs. Donna S. Lea of Rocky Mount, N.C.; a daughter, Miss Elizabeth Caroline Beale of Franklin; a son, Leland E. Beale III of Franklin; one sister, Mrs. Ann Barbour of Clarksdale, Miss.; and one brother, Stanley R. Lea Jr. of Greenville, N.C. Mildred (LEA; Mrs. Leland E. Jr.) BEALE, formerly of Richmond, Albemarle Co. native, d. 7 Sep 1972, Franklin, age 44, interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 3, Sect. C, Plot 50*), Franklin, 9 Sep 1972, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Sep. 11, 1972, A-3 *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx3.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/b400m1ob.txt