Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Edwards, L. Roger, 1946 

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LUTHER ROGER EDWARDS

   L. Roger Edwards died Monday of injuries sustained in an automobile crash 
early last Saturday morning in which Dr. Ralph R. Higgins of Franklin was 
killed and eight other people were injured.

   Mr. Edwards, 37 years of age, was the husband of Mrs. Elizabeth Perry 
Edwards, formerly of Windsor, N.C., and the son of Mr. and Mrs. Tyler Edwards 
of this community.  He was a member of Sycamore Baptist Church and of the 
Bruner Bible Class of the Franklin Baptist Church, an employee of the Camp 
Manufacturing Company and a member of Company 23 of the Virginia State Guard.

   He is also survived by a daughter, Martha Perry Edwards; a sister, Mrs. 
John Moody, and two brothers, Clyde T. and Carlyle Edwards, all of Franklin. 
Funeral services were held at the grave in Poplar Spring Cemetery here 
Wednesday afternoon at 3:30, conducted by the Rev. R.D. Stephenson and the 
Rev. E.W. Aaron.


Luther Roger EDWARDS, Camp Manufacturing employee, Virginia State Guard member, 
injured in crash 27 Jul 1946, d. 29 Jul 1946, Franklin, age 37, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 73A*), Franklin, 
   29 Jul 1945, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 2, 1946, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society, Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

Additional information: 

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," May 13, 1954) is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/e363t1ob.txt 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 18, 1954), with their marriage 
   record appended, is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/e363j7ob.txt 

His brothers Clyde Tyler & Mills Carlyle are buried in Southampton Memorial 
   Park (Devotion II-138 & Masonic I-1, respectively): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/somempk.txt 


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

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/e363r7ob.txt