Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Edwards, Blanche, 1969 

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BLANCHE EDWARDS

   A Requiem Mass for Miss Blanche Edwards will be celebrated Thursday at 11 
a.m. in St. Jude’s Catholic Church by Father Antonio R. Malsbad.  Burial will 
be Poplar Spring Cemetery with W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home in charge.

   Pallbearers will be W.F. Hart Jr., Walter E. Beaman, Clifford A. Cutchins 
III, Robert A. Pretlow Jr., Robert C. Ray, Sidney T. Williams, J.J. Finley 
Jr., and T. Arthur Vaughan.

   Miss Edwards, 94, died Monday in a Suffolk hospital.

   She was a daughter of Col. Luther R. and Mrs. Virginia Bourke Edwards.

   A member of St. Jude’s Catholic Church.

   She was an officer of the first Southampton County Chapter of American Red 
Cross, founded in 1917 and a member of Agnes Lee Chapter of United Daughters 
of the Confederacy.

   Surviving are two nephews, Gordon Edwards of Greenwich, Conn., and L. Rice 
Edwards of Falls Church.


Blanche EDWARDS, 
d. 27 Jan 1969, Suffolk, age 94, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 4*), Franklin, 
   30 Jan 1969, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 30, 1969, p. 3 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
    Poplar Spring list: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

Her father's obit ("Tidewater News," Oct. 4, 1918, p. 1) is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/e363l4ob.txt 


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and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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