Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gay, Joseph P., 1946 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ JOSEPH PATRICK GAY Joseph Patrick Gay, 63, son of the late Josiah Powell and Emma Lee Gay, died suddenly of a heart attack Monday morning in Baltimore, Maryland. Surviving his are a sister, Mrs. James Fenton Bryant, Jr., of Franklin and one nephew, Josiah Gay Bryant of Roanoke Rapids, N.C. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday morning at 11 o’clock in Poplar Spring Cemetery with the Rev. R.D. Stephenson, pastor of the Franklin Baptist Church, officiating. Active pallbearers were Cecil C. Vaughan, III, Richard A. Jones, Thomas D. Boone, John M. Camp, Joe Bynum Gay, Jr., Everett R. Bryant, Jr., Franklin Edwards and G.E. Pillow. Joseph Patrick GAY, d. 8 Apr 1946, Baltimore, MD, age 63, interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 10*), Franklin, 10 Apr 1945, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 12, 1946, p. 5 *Southampton County Historical Society, Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt His father's obits ("Tidewater News," June 17, 1921, p. 1; & June 24, 1921, p. 5) are posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/g000j1ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/g000j4ob.txt