Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Brown, George R., 1966 

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GEORGE ROBERT BROWN

   FRANKLIN - A funeral service for George Robert Brown was conducted 
Wednesday at 11 a.m. in the W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Chapel by the 
Rev. Ira D. Hudgins, pastor of Franklin Baptist church.  Burial was in 
Poplar Spring Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were W.T. Pace Jr., Roy Edwards, Dr. Darden W. Jones, 
Junius W. Pulley Jr., Ferrell W. Powell, Edward Gilliam, Emmet M. Scott 
and H.S. Rawlings Sr.

   Brown, 78, died at Southampton Memorial Hospital, Monday, Nov. 14 
after an illness of several weeks.

   A native of Winston, N.C., he was the husband of Mrs. Marian Howell 
Brown and the son of the late George Andrew, and Emma Riddick Brown.

   A retired employee of W.H. Scott Inc., he was a member of the Franklin 
Baptist Church, and a charter member of the Mens Bruner Bible Class.

   He was a veteran of World War I, a charter member of the American 
Legion Post No. 73, and one of the oldest members of Franklin Masonic 
Lodge No. 151.

   Surviving besides his wife, is one daughters, Mrs. Jacquelyn Brown 
Meoni of Richmond; three sisters Mrs. J. Carlyle Stephens of Virginia 
Beach, Mrs. Dan P. Boyette Sr., of Ahoskie, N.C., and Mrs. David Parker 
of Winston, N.C. and five grandchildren.


George Robert BROWN, retired employee of W.H. Scott, WW-I veteran, 
Winston, NC native, d. 14 Nov 1966, Franklin, age 78, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 28A*), Franklin, 
   16 Nov 1966, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 17, 1966, p. 3 

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


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