Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Blythe, Rosa Cobb, 1959 

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ROSA COBB BLYTHE

   Mrs. Rosa Cobb Blythe, 81, well-known resident of the Franklin area and 
widow of Mallory B. Blythe, Sr., died Sunday at her home after a long illness.

   She was the daughter of Newitt and Mrs. Martha Webster Cobb of Southampton 
County.  She was a member of Bethel Friends Meetings House and the Friends 
Guild Society.

   Surviving are five sons, Luther W. Blythe, Cecil Blythe, Phillip Wayne 
Blythe, Howard Blythe and Mallory Blythe, Jr., all of Franklin; three 
daughters, Mrs. Bertha B. Lankford and Mrs. Bennie R. Carr, both of Franklin, 
and Mrs. James Corbitt, Newport News; 21 grandchildren; and nine great-
grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Martha Griffin, Franklin, and one half-
brother, Samuel Cobb, Franklin.

   The body was taken to the W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home, where 
funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 3 p.m. by the Rev. James Coney, 
retired pastor of Bethel Friends Meeting House.

   Burial will be in Poplar Spring Cemetery.

   Pallbearers will be Isaac C. White, Exum N. White, Linwood Ricks, Lee 
Moorman White, Chester W. Burgess, Jr. and Dr. T.A. Morgan.


Rosa (COBB; Mrs. Mallory B. {Sr.}) BLYTHE, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 23 Jun 1959, at home, Franklin area, age 81, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 98*), Franklin, 
   23 Jun 1959, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 22, 1959, Sect. I, p. 5 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," June 11, 1937, p. 10) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b430m6ob.txt 


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