Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Ferguson, Lila N. Drake, 1968 

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LILA N. DRAKE FERGUSON 

   NEWSOMS - A funeral service for Mrs. Lila Drake Ferguson was conducted 
Thursday at 2:30 p.m. in W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home by the Rev. 
Robert D. Fridley of High Street Methodist Church.  Burial was in Newsoms 
cemetery.

   Pallbearers were J.T. Story Jr., Fred Worrell, W.T. O’Berry Jr., George 
Cook, Julian Carter, Marvin Cook, C.C. Thorpe Jr., and Calvin Vick.

   Mrs. Ferguson, 81, died in her home Tuesday afternoon.

   A lifelong resident of Newsoms community, she was the widow of Percy G. 
Ferguson and a daughter of Walter Franklin and Mrs. Elmer Gray Britt. [sic*] 

   She was a member of the Barnes Methodist Church.

   Surviving are a brother, Leroy R. Drake of Chesapeake and two sisters, 
Mrs. Romie Drake of Newsoms and Mrs. Alice Story of Murfreesboro, N.C.


Lila Nettie (DRAKE; Mrs. Percy G.) FERGUSON, 
lifelong resident of Newsoms, d. 4 Jul 1958, at home, age 81, 
interred in Hollywood Cemetery**, Newsoms, 6 Jul 1958, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 10, 1958, Sect. II, p. 4 

**Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Hollywood list (N-34): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/hollywd.txt 

*Lila's D.Cert. (68-013386) shows the same error.  Her parents were 
   Walter Franklin & Lula Ema/Elma/Elmer (GRAY) DRAKE. 
   They m. 16 Feb 1886. (Southampton Co. MB5:548) 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Sep. 23, 1949, p. 9) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/f622p2ob.txt 


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