Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bryant, M. Ruth Hufton, 1971 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ MARJORIE RUTH HUFTON BRYANT A funeral service for Mrs. Ruth Hufton Bryant, 69, of Rt. 3, Franklin, was held Tuesday at 1 p.m. in W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home by Dr. Ira Hudgins. Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery. Pallbearers were Bill Ellis, Rudolph Newsoms, James Rogers, Spencer Smith, Sam Powell, Joe Stewart, S.A. Carr and Cecil Porter. A native of North Carolina, she lived in this area 40 years. She was the wife of Roy Marvin Bryant and a daughter of George and Mrs. Missouri Biggs Hufton. She was a member of Franklin Baptist Church. Besides her husand, surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Maxine Davie of Chesapeake; four sons, L.A. Bryant of Norfolk, Garland Bryant of Courtland, Clayton Bryant of Guam and Truman Bryant of Franklin; a brother, Woodrow Hufton of Chesapeake; three sisters, Mrs. Mahala McCoy and Miss Debbie Hufton of Chesapeake and Mrs. Lydia Epps of Roanoke Rapids, N.C. Marjorie Ruth (HUFTON; Mrs. M. Roy) BRYANT, of the Franklin area, NC native, d. 29 Aug 1971, age 69, interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 3, Section B, Plot 72*), Franklin, 31 Aug 1971, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Sep. 2, 1971, p. 7 *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx3.txt Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Sep. 8, 1983, p. 6A) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b653m13o.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/b653m12o.txt