Southampton County-Chesapeake City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries...... Coley, Rena V., 1963 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ Rena V. Coley Buried Tuesday Funeral services for Miss Rena Virginia Coley, who died Sunday, were conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. in the Hill Funeral Home by the Rev. T.R. Musick, pastor of Academy Park Community Church, Portsmouth, and the Rev. John C. Mitchell, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Suffolk. Burial was in Greenlawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Portsmouth. Pallbearers were S.A. Morgan, J.B. Honeycutt, J.M. Drury, Harold Balock, David Brown, W.C. Crews, W.W. Hilderbrand, and David E. Allen. Rena Virginia COLEY, seamstress, b. 7 May 1913, Southampton Co., d. 1 Sep 1963, Norfolk, interred in Greenlawn Memorial Park*, Chesapeake, 3 Sep 1963, "Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 41, No. 212, Wed., Sep. 4, 1963, p. 2 *Additional information: A photo of her gravestone - added by Anonymous - is posted with Find a Grave Memorial #62391672, which mistakenly gives spouse of Bell Field COLEY (1917 - 1969) - Rena's brother. B.Cert. 1913-20388 (Jerusalem #76); father in Ancestry.com transcript annotated by Patricia Harp, from "S." to "Sterling Luther." D.Cert. 24806 (Norfolk #1948) gives divorced from Marvin Godwin Coley. Rather, she was divorced from Marvin GODWIN. Her father, Sterling S. COLEY (1863 - 1928), is buried in the SEBRELL-SIMMONS Cemetery, Sebrell. SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 4 (IV-14): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol4.txt His obit ("Tidewater News," June 29, 1928, p. 7) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c400s2ob.txt Her mother, Mamie (LASSITER) COLEY (1884 - 1958) is buried in Ahoskie Cemetery, Ahoskie, Hertford Co., NC. Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by File Manager Matt Harris (zoobug64@aol.com). file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c400r3ob.txt