Southampton County-Newport News City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Fortune, Mamie Raymond, 1958 

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MAMIE RAYMOND FORTUNE 

   Mrs. Mamie Raymond Fortune, 93, well-known resident of Newport News, died 
Sunday in a Williamsburg hospital after a long illness.

   She was the widow of Joseph Fortune and daughter of the late Charles A. 
and Augusta Raymond, of New York.  She was the aunt of Mrs. Dennis L. Britt, 
[sic; Brett] of Franklin.

   She was a member of the Orcutt Avenue Baptist church, Newport News.

   She is survived by three nieces and a nephew, and a number of great-nieces 
and nephews.

   Funeral services were conducted at the graveside Tuesday at 11:30 a.m. at 
the Poplar Spring Cemetery, Franklin, by the Rev. Herman Stevens, former 
pastor of the Orcutt Avenue Baptist Church, and the Rev. Ira D. Hudgins, and 
Rev. Donald E. Dunlap, pastor and assistant pastor of the Franklin Baptist 
Church.

   Pallbearers were T.C. Holland, Jr., Herbert Edwards, Kemper Daughtrey, Jr., 
Vaughan Beale, William H. Howell, Jr., and L.E. Edwards.


Mamie (RAYMOND; Mrs. Joseph M.) FORTUNE, of Newport News, 
NY native, d. 21 Dec 1958, Williamsburg, age 93, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 76*), Franklin, 
   23 Dec 1958, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 25, 1958, Sect. II, p. 4 

*Her brother & niece are also buried there. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 


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