Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gardner, Archie R., 1968 

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ARCHIE ROBERT GARDNER 

   IVOR - A graveside funeral service for Archie Robert Gardner was conducted 
Saturday at 2 p.m. in Ivor Cemetery by the Rev. Berkley Garnett.  Purviance 
Funeral Home, Wakefield was in charge. 

   Pallbearers were N.S. Boykins, J.J. Bradshaw, Marsdan Pulley, Edgar V. 
Stephenson Jr., J.T. Faircloth Jr., Dr. E.M. Babb, Marvin Felts, Winston Camp, 
Ernest Pittman, Bobby Owens and Roy Stephenson. 

   Gardner, 91, died Thursday in a Richmond hospital after illness of a month. 

   A lifelong resident of Southampton County, he was a retired rural mail 
carrier and post master.  He was the husband of Mrs. Eunice Clayton Gardner 
and a son of John Wesley and Mrs. Katherine Wills Gardner. 

   He was a deacon of Ivor Baptist Church, and a member of Woodmen of the 
World.  He was an Army veteran of World War I. 

   Besides his widow, surviving are two sisters, Mrs. T.B. Bell and Miss 
Arleen Gardner of Courtland, and a niece, Mrs. G.T. Martin of Springfield. 


"Archie" Archer Robert GARDNER, retired rural mail carrier & post master, 
Army veteran of WW-I, 
lifelong resident of Southampton Co., d. 4 Jan 1968, Richmond, age 91, 
interred in Ivor Cemetery*, 6 Jan 1968, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 8, 1968, p. 6 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Ivor list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/ivor.txt 

His parents are buried in Riverside Cemetery, Courtland - Section I, Plot 44. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Riverside list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/riverside.txt 

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," Apr. 18, 1930, p. 8) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/g635j3ob.txt 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," May 8, 1936, p. 7) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/g635k1ob.txt 


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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
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