Southampton-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cobb, Linda J., 1970 

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LINDA JEAN COBB 

   SEDLEY - A funeral service for Miss Linda Jean Cobb was conducted at 4 p.m. 
Sunday in W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home, Franklin, by the Rev. Grover C. 
Holden and Dr. R.E. Brittle. Burial was in Southampton Memorial Park. 

   Pallbearers were Lewis P. Jervey, A.A. Dempsey, Mike Whitley, Joe Hutt, 
Walter Barden, and Edward Brooks. 

   Miss Cobb, 22, of Sedley was killed Friday at 8:15 p.m. when an automobile 
coming from a side road struck the front of the car she was driving. 

   Miss Cobb was headed east on Va. 641 2.9 miles west of Franklin, said State 
Trooper B.G. Bell, when a car driven by E.A. Daughtrey, 31, of Windsor struck 
the right front of her vehicle as Daughtrey approached Va. 641 headed north on 
Va. 611. 

   Miss Cobb’s vehicle overturned in a ditch on the left side of Va. 641, Bell 
said. She was dead on arrival Southampton Memorial Hospital. 

   Daughtrey was treated at the hospital for cuts of the face, arms, and legs. 

   A native of Isle of Wight County, Miss Cobb was a daughter of Woodrow W. 
and Mrs. Lilly Powell Cobb. 

   She was a member of Tucker’s Swamp Baptist Church and a secretary for Manry 
Insurance Agency in Courtland. 

   Besides her parents, she is survived by two sisters, Miss Donna Cobb of 
Sedley and Mrs. Judy Hasty of Franklin; and grandparents Mrs. B.M. Cobb of 
Windsor and Mrs. John Powell, Franklin. 


[Linda Jean COBB, of Sedley, secretary for Manry Insurance Agency, 
 Isle of Wight Co. native, d. in collision 8 May 1970, age 22, 
 interred in Southampton Memorial Park, 10 May 1970, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 14, 1970] 

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