Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Drake, Nannie M. Porter, 1964 

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NANNIE MAUDE PORTER DRAKE 

   NEWSOMS - Funeral service was held at 3 p.m. Sunday for Mrs. Nannie Porter 
Drake, 59, who died in her home early Friday.  Service was in W.J.M. Holland 
and Sons Funeral Home by the Rev. L.F. Smith of South Quay Baptist Church, a 
former pastor of Newsoms Baptist Church.  Burial was at Newsoms Cemetery.

   A native of Newsoms, she was a member of Newsoms Baptist Church and its 
Women’s Missionary Society.

   She was the wife of Russell Drake and daughter of Mrs. Carrie Worrell 
Porter and the late Bennie Porter.

   Surviving, besides her husband and mother, are a son, Russell S. Drake, Jr. 
and a brother, Ralph Porter, of Newsoms.

   Pallbearers were J.R. Railey, E.J. Cogsdale, Dr. J.J. Grizzard, Peter Vick, 
Aubrey Story, Johnny Cook, R.B. Story and Eppa Prince.  Honorary pallbearers 
were the men’s Bible Class of the Newsoms Baptist Church.


Nannie Maude (PORTER; Mrs. Russell S. Sr.) DRAKE, 
Newsoms native, d. 21 Feb 1964, at home, Newsoms, age 59, 
interred in Hollywood Cemetery*, Newsoms, 22 Feb 1964, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 27, 1964, Sect. I, p. 7 

*Her parents are also buried there. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Hollywood list (N-28&52): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/hollywd.txt 


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

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