Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Draper, Homer V. Sr., 1967 

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HOMER VIRGIL DRAPER

   BOYKINS - A funeral service for Homer Virgil Draper Sr. was conducted 
Wednesday at 3 p.m. in McDowell Funeral Home by Rev. Ben B. Ussery.  Burial 
was in Beechwood Cemetery, Boykins.

   Pallbearers were Joe Draper, L.F. Draper Jr., Jack Draper, R.F. Marks Jr., 
Albert Lassiter, Raymond Francis, Bernard Eckenrode, Joseph W. Washington and 
George Scott.

   Draper, 69, died Monday morning in his home.

   A native of North Carolina, he was the husband of Mrs. Gladys Francis 
Draper and a son of Andrew J. and Mrs. Maggie Conner Draper.

   He was a retired electrician of Norfolk Naval Shipyard.  He was a member of 
Boykins Methodist Church and former resident of Suffolk.

   Besides his widow, surviving are a son, Homer V. Draper Jr. of Boykins; two 
daughters, Mrs. Evelyn D. Brown of Rocky Mount, N.C. and Mrs. Nancy D. Parker 
of Boykins; three brothers, L. Felton Draper Sr. of Boykins, Godwin W. Draper 
and Leslie Draper of Richmond; three sisters, Mrs. Vivian D. Farmer of 
Boykins, Mrs. Helen Wakefield of Kendall, Fla., and Mrs. Dorothy Thompson of 
Ormand Beach, Fla.; and eight grandchildren.


Homer Virgil DRAPER, Sr., retired Norfolk Naval Shipyard electrician, 
NC native, d. 17 Jul 1967, at home, age 68, 
interred in Beechwood Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 64*), Boykins, 
   19 Jul 1967, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 20, 1967, p. 10 

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


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