Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Edwards, Lula Griffin, 1957 

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LULA GRIFFIN EDWARDS

MRS. LULA G. EDWARDS

   Mrs. Lula Griffin Edwards, 67, a former resident of the Black Creek 
community, Southampton County, died Thursday February 28, at 3:55 p.m. in a 
Norfolk hospital after a short illness. She had been making her home in Norfolk 
with her daughter, Mrs. Lois M. Lewis. 

   Mrs. Edwards was the widow of William Fletcher Edwards and the daughter of 
the late William Henry and Mrs. India Hatfield Griffin. She was a native of 
Southampton County and a member of Black Creek Baptist Church. 

   In addition to Mrs. Lewis, she is survived by another daughter, Mrs. Hazel 
Carr of Bowers Hill; a granddaughter, Mrs. Marian Carroll of Baton Rouge, La; a 
grandson, Wayne Lewis of Norfolk; three sisters, Mrs. Hunter Blythe of 
Franklin, Mrs. Bernice Carter of Walters and Mrs. Odell Spivey of Smithfield. 

   Funeral services were conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. in the Black Creek Baptist 
Church with Rev. Len B. Allen, pastor, and Rev. W.C. Norcum, pastor of the 
Indiana Methodist Church, Portsmouth, officiating. Burial was in Rosemont 
Cemetery, Sedley. 

   Active pallbearers were Edward Blythe, D.C. Blythe, Kelly Blythe, Cecil 
Edwards. E.S. Edwards, Jr., and J.P. Bradshaw. 


[Lula (GRIFFIN; Mrs. Wm. F. Jr.) EDWARDS, d. 28 Feb 1957, Norfolk, age 67, 
 bd. Rosemont Cemetery, Sedley, 3 Mar 1957, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), 7 Mar 1957] 

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