Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cornwell, Roy C., 2000 

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ROY C. CORNWELL 

  Roy Caleb Cornwell, 81, a resident of Bell Avenue, died Feb. 19, 2000, in 
Southampton Memorial Hospital, Franklin.  Born in Southampton County on 
May 16, 1918, he was the son of the late Caleb Minor Cornwell and Grace Amanda 
Hines Cornwell. 

  Roy graduated from Ivor High School in 1938 and attended apprentice school 
at the Norfolk Navy Yard in Portsmouth for three years.  He served as a member 
of the U.S. Navy during World War II.  He then worked as a sheet metal worker 
at the Norfolk Navy Yard until 1946, at which time he opened Ivor Grocery Co. 
with his friend, E.V. Stephenson Jr.  In 1958, he joined Virginia-Carolina 
Fertilizer Co., and in 1965 he founded Prescription Fertilizer and Chemical 
Co. in Ivor.  He retired in 1985, participating in many civic and social 
activities all his life.  He was a great outdoorsman, an avid sportsman and 
an expert quail hunter. 

  Roy was a founding member of the Ivor Volunteer Fire Department, a member of 
the Ivor Ruritan Club, the B&B Hunt Club and the Ivor Masonic Lodge No. 291, 
AF&AM.  He was a member of Ivor United Methodist Church and had been a member 
of Millfield Baptist Church in his youth. 

  He is survived by his wife of 52 years, Eleanor Epps Cornwell; two 
daughters, Cathy Cornwell Floyd and her husband, Locke, of Concord, N.C., and 
Glenda Cornwell Nemes and her husband, Dick, of Pittsford, N.Y.; four 
grandchildren, Michael Cornwell Floyd, Brian Booth Floyd, Paul Epps Floyd and 
Tyler Reid Nemes; two nephews; a niece; and a host of close friends and 
acquaintances throughout the area.  A sister, Ruth Cornwell Felton, formerly 
of Suffolk, and a brother, Raby Hines Cornwell, formerly of Ivor, predeceased 
him. 

  The Rev. C. Randolph Duncan will hold funeral services at 2 p.m. Monday in 
Purviance Funeral Home, Wakefield.  Burial will be in Ivor Cemetery.  The 
family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today at the funeral home, and 
at other times at the residence.  Memorial donations may be made to the Ivor 
Volunteer Rescue Squad or to the Fire Department, or to Ivor United Methodist 
Church. 


Roy Caleb CORNWELL, Ivor merchant, Navy veteran of WW-II, 
b. 16 May 1918, Southampton Co., d. 19 Feb 2000, Franklin, 
interred in Ivor Cemetery*, 21 Feb 2000, 
"Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Feb. 20, 2000, p. B7 

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

His father was buried 27 Dec 1930 in a family cemetery, near Berlin; 
   site not known (Aug 2020) to the SCHS Cemetery Project. 

His mother is buried in Holly Lawn Cemetery, Suffolk. 
   Holly Lawn list, an extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/hollyln.txt 


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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. 

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