Southampton-Alleghany County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Edwards, Virginia M. Ricks, 1967 

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VIRGINIA MARIE RICKS EDWARDS

   FRANKLIN - A funeral service for Mrs. Virginia Marie Ricks Edwards was 
conducted Friday at 2 p.m. in W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home by Dr. 
Ira D. Hudgins of Franklin Baptist Church.  Burial was in Poplar Spring 
Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were Joe Bynum Gay III, W.J.M. Holland III, Carl Steinhardt, 
Elsworth Jones, J.H. Howerton, J.B. Johnson, Edward Gilliam and G.E. Pillow.

   Mrs. Edwards, 65, of the Camp Apartments, a former teacher and Franklin’s 
first librarian, died Wednesday afternoon in Southampton Memorial Hospital 
after a short illness.

   A native of Covington, she was the widow of John Linwood Edwards and a 
daughter of George B. and Mrs. Willie Ann Hayes Ricks.

   She came in 1922 and taught elementary school.  She was secretary for the 
Franklin commissioner of revenue several years.

   At retirement, she was secretary to the chairman of the executive committee 
of Union Camp Corp.

   She was a member of Franklin Baptist Church.

   Surviving are a son, John Linwood Edwards Jr. of Richmond; two sisters, 
Mrs. M.S. Noffsinger of Roanoke and Mrs. D. B. Landis of Covington; a brother, 
E.C. Ricks of Uniontown, Pa.; and four grandchildren.


Virginia Marie (RICKS; Mrs. John L.) EDWARDS, 
former executive secretary & teacher and Franklin’s first librarian, 
Covington native, d. 24 May 1967, Franklin, age 65, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 3, Section A, Plot 13*), Franklin, 
   26 May 1967, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 29, 1966, p. 3 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
    Poplar Spring list: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx3.txt 


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