Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bryant, Robert L., 1945 

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ROBERT LEE BRYANT

   Robert Lee Bryant, 49 years of age, died last Tuesday morning at the 
home of his parents.  He had been ill several months.

   He was the son of James Davis and Hattie Kitchen Bryant of Newsoms and 
is survived by two daughters, Miss Faye Haddley Bryant of Norfolk and Mrs. 
Francis Marn Credle, of Portsmouth; one son, Corp. Wilbur Lee Bryant, 
U.S.A.A.F. stationed in Italy; one grand-daughter, Pricilla Mae Bryant of 
Norfolk, one brother, Claude B. "Shorty" Bryant of Franklin; two sisters, 
Mrs. Jack Bunn of Newsoms and Mrs. Herman Bradshaw of Portsmouth.

   Funeral rites were conducted at the grave Wednesday afternoon at 3 
o’clock by his pastor, Rev. R.W. Wells, assisted by the pastor of Newsoms 
Methodist Church, Rev. John W. Morrison, burial taking place in the family 
plot in Newsoms cemetery.  The choir sang "Asleep In Jesus" and Joel Cook 
Holland sang "Sunrise."

   The active pallbearers were: David Lankford, Jr., and Romie Holland of 
Franklin, Kent Miles of Pendleton, N.C., Lloyd Vick of Portsmouth, and 
Bennie Bunn, Hugh Ferguson, Ralph Porter and Earnest Coggsdale of Newsoms. 
Honorary pallbearers were members of his Sunday school class.


[Robert Lee BRYANT, 
 d. 17 Apr 1945, at parents' home, Newsoms, age 49, 
 interred in Hollywood Cemetery, Newsoms, 18 Apr 1945, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 20, 1945] 

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