Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bailey, Richard T., 1981 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ 1ST SGT. RICHARD THOMAS BAILEY FRANKLIN - A funeral service for 1st Sgt. Richard Thomas Bailey, 39, will be held today at 2 p.m. in Wright Funeral Home by the Rev. Kenneth Williams. Burial will be in Southampton Memorial Park with military honors at the grave. Bailey died Sunday night in Portsmouth Naval Hospital. A native of Franklin, he was the husband of Mrs. Dorothy Vick Bailey. He was stationed at Lakehurst, N.J., with flight-test activities. He had 20 years of service. Other survivors include three daughters, Teresa Bailey, Darleen Bailey, Shelia Bailey, and two sons, Dwayne Bailey and Steve Bailey, all of the home; a brother, Jerry Jordan of Franklin; and stepfather, Meritt Jordan of Oklahoma. [1st Sgt. Richard Thomas BAILEY, veteran of 20 years of service, Franklin native, d. 23 Aug 1981, Portsmouth, age 39, interred in Southampton Memorial Park (Devotion II, Plot 136), 27 Aug 1981, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 27, 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/b400r8ob.txt