Southampton-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Darden, Myrtle M.A. Clark, 2000 

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MYRTLE CLARK DARDEN 

  Myrtle Clark Darden, 69, died Oct. 6, 2000.  Born in Oconee County, S.C., 
she was a daughter of the late Anderson Henry and Annie Jones Clark and the 
widow of Elmer J. Darden.  She was retired from Hancock Peanut Co. 

  Survivors include seven daughters, Annie Johnson, Bobbie Jean Turner, 
Shirley Echols and her husband, Alan, Martha Ellen Weirich and her husband, 
Dwight, Virgia Lee Cooper, Kathy Darden and Judy Rose; three sons, William 
Turner, Willie Lee Turner, Ross Allen Turner and his wife, Debbie; three 
sisters, Lydia Howard, Mattie Roach and Bernice Beale; four brothers, Henry, 
Clarence, Willie and Carl Clark; 17 grandchildren; and eight great-
grandchildren. 

  A funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Monday in Wright Funeral Home Chapel by 
the Rev. Kenneth Williams.  Burial will be in Southampton Memorial Park.  The 
family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home 
and suggests that memorials be made to the American Cancer Society c/o Ruth 
Petty, 116 Southampton Road, Franklin, VA 23851 or to Sentara Hospice, 3508 
Robs Drive, Suffolk, VA 23434. 


Myrtle Martha Ann (CLARK TURNER; Mrs. Elmer J. Jr.) DARDEN, 
retired from Hancock Peanut, 
b. 17 Jul 1931, Oconee Co., SC, d. 6 Oct 2000, Franklin, 
interred in Southampton Memorial Park (Devotion I, Plot 161*), 9 Oct 2000, 
"Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Oct. 7, 2000, p. B5 

*Additional information: 

Her brother Willie & their mother are buried in adjacent Plot 162. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Southampton Memorial list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/somempk.txt 

Her in-laws, and her first husband, Willie Lee TURNER, & his parents 
   are buried in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery, near Carrsville. 
   Beaver Dam list, another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt 

Myrtle killed her first husband, 25 May 1961, allegedly in self-defense. 
   An article ("Smithfield Times," June 1, 1961, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/news/19610601st.txt 


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

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