Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Forrest, Willie F. Godwin, 1967 

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WILLIE FRANCIS GODWIN FORREST 

   SEDLEY - A funeral service for Mrs. Willie Francis Godwin Forrest was 
conducted Monday at 4:30 p.m. in Grace Memorial Methodist Church, Sedley by 
the Rev. Robert Henley.  Burial was in Rosemont Cemetery.  W.J.M. Holland & 
Sons Funeral Home was in charge.

   Pallbearers were B.J. Hotchkiss, Elton McClenny, McKinnley Drewry, Frank 
Hayner, Allen Bell and H.J. Hubbard.

   Mrs. Forrest, 73, died early Saturday morning in Southampton Memorial 
Hospital after a long illness.  She was the widow of Edward D. Forrest and 
the daughter of George W. and Mrs. Gillie Ann Carter Godwin.

   A native of Mt. Airy, N.C., she had made her home in the community for 
the past forty years.  She was a member of Grace Memorial Methodist Church 
and the Golden Age Group of Sedley.

   Surviving are six sons John E. Forrest and Garland H. Forrest of 
Alexandria, Kenneth M. Forrest of Charlottesville, Roy H. Forrest of Newport 
News, Edward D. Forrest of Chesapeake and Sgt. William G. Forrest of the 
United States Army stationed in Germany; two daughters, Mrs. George Cluverius 
Jr. of Yorktown and Mrs. William E. Jones of Sedley and thirteen grandchildren.


Willie Francis (GODWIN; Mrs. Edward D.) FORREST, of Sedley, 
Mt. Airy, NC native, d. 27 May 1967, Franklin, age 73, 
interred in Rosemont Cemetery*, Sedley, 
   29 May 1967, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 1, 1967, p. 7 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Rosemont list (S-28): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/rosemont.txt 


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