Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gray, Geneva Cooper, 1945 

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GENEVA COOPER GRAY

   Mrs. Giva Cooper Gray, 48, wife of Ezra F. Gray of Franklin, died Sunday 
morning in the Norfolk General Hospital after an illness of a few weeks.

   Mrs. Gray was the daughter of Mrs. Virginia Daughtrey Cooper, of Franklin, 
and the late W.F. Cooper.  She was a consistent member of the Congregational 
Christian Church, serving as superintendent of the Primary Department of this 
Sunday school for the past 28 years, resigning last year due to ill health.

   Beside her husband and mother, she is survived by two sisters, Mrs. L.E. 
Bassett and Mrs. J.L. Gillette, both of Franklin, and a number of nieces and 
one nephew.

   Funeral services were held from her late residence in Clay Street Monday 
afternoon at 4:30 o’clock with services conducted by her pastor, Rev. Wm. T. 
Scott, assisted by Rev. R.D. Stephenson.  Burial was made in the family plot 
in Poplar Spring Cemetery, the pallbearers being: A.P. Ratliff, L.B. Norfleet, 
K.M. Pillow, W.G. Atkins, J. Letcher Eley, Story Cutchin, Joe Johnson and Paul 
B. Davis of Courtland.


Geneva "Giva" (COOPER; Mrs. Ezra F.) GRAY, of Franklin, 
d. 9 Sep 1945, Norfolk, age 48, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 70B*), Franklin, 
   10 Sep 1945, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Sep. 14, 1945, p. 1 

*Buried with her in-laws. 
 Southampton County Historical Society, Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

Her husband remarried and is buried with his second wife, Margaret (VICK) GRAY 
   in Annex 2, Plot 242: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

His obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 16, 1951) is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/g600e1ob.txt 


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