Southampton-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bradshaw, Dorothy Drake, 1979 

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DOROTHY DRAKE BRADSHAW

   Mrs. Dorothy Bradshaw, 71, of 303 Lee St., a native of Franklin and the 
widow of Samuel Bradshaw, died Monday in Southampton Memorial Hospital.  She 
was a retired school teacher for the Isle of Wight County Public School 
System, she was employed at Vaughan & Co. Bankers for a number of years, 
she was a member of the Franklin Christian Church, a graduate of the college 
of William and Mary, a graduate of the American Institute of Banking, she was 
a former secretary to the 4th District of the House of Delegates, she was a 
former secretary-treasurer to the American Legion Unit No. 73, she was a 
member of the Agnes Lee Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy, she was 
a member of the Franklin Women’s Club, a member of Cyprus Cove Country Club, 
and a member of the Women’s Golf Association.  Survivors include two sisters, 
Mrs. Louise Drake Soden of Rocky Mt., N.C. and Mrs. Wayland E. Major of 
Newport News, Va.; three brothers, Theodore R. Drake of Franklin, Va., James 
C. Drake of Sedley, Va., and Freddy F. Drake of Suffolk, Va., a number of 
nieces and nephews. A funeral will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. in Wright 
Funeral Home with Rev. R.E. Brittle and the Rev. John Kelly officiating. 
Burial will be in Poplar Spring Cemetery.  Family will receive friends at the 
funeral home Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m.


Dorothy (DRAKE; Mrs. Samuel) BRADSHAW, of Franklin, 
retired Isle of Wight Co. school teacher, 
Franklin native, d. 5 Feb 1979, Franklin, age 71, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 82*), Franklin, 
   7 Feb 1979, 
"The Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," Feb. 6, 1979, p. 14 

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

Her husband's obit ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," Jan. 24, 1973, p. 41) 
   is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b632s4ob.txt 


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