Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Griffith, Okie I. Raiford, 1961 

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OKIE RAIFORD GRIFFITH

   Mrs. Okie Raiford Griffith, age 64 years, widow of the late Lewis W. 
Griffith and the daughter of the late William Burgess and Ella Hedgepeth 
Raiford of Southampton County died Tuesday afternoon in a Durham Hospital 
after an illness of several months.  She was a native of Southampton County, 
and for the past sixteen years had been teaching in Trinity High School in 
Trinity, N.C.

   A graduate of Guildford College in class of 1921.  A lifelong member of 
the Corinth Meeting of Southampton County, and a member of the North Carolina 
Teachers Association.

   Surviving are: one sister, Mrs. C.K. Strowd, Chapel Hill, N.C., two 
brothers, Herman Raiford, Durham, N.C., and Algie Raiford, one step-son, 
Lewis W. Griffith, Suffolk. Two nephews, and one niece.

   The body was taken to W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home in Franklin, and 
Friday morning will be taken to the home near Ivor.

   Funeral services will be at Corinth Meeting House Friday at 2 p.m. by the 
Rev. James A. Coney.

   Burial will be made in Rosemont Cemetery, Sedley.


Okie Irene (RAIFORD; Mrs. Lewis W.) GRIFFITH, Trinity (NC) H.S. teacher, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 31 Oct 1961, Durham, NC, age 64, 
interred in Rosemont Cemetery*, Sedley, 3 Nov 1961, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 2, 1961, Section 1, p. 2 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project,
    Rosemont list (S-32):
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/rosemont.txt 

Additional information: 

Okie's mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Aug. 15, 1947, p.7) is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/r163e3ob.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/g613o1ob.txt