Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Hawkins, Colan D., 1948 

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COLAN DEE HAWKINS

   Colan D. Hawkins, 64, resident of the Franklin community for the past five 
years died Monday morning, June 21, at Raiford Memorial Hospital after an 
illness of three weeks.

   Mr. Hawkins was born in Frankfort, Ky., and before moving to Franklin lived 
in North Carolina.  A son of the late Robert Elliott and Anna Lewis Hawkins of 
Frankfort, he was a member of the Evergreen Baptist Church of that city.  His 
wife, Mrs. Florence Selina Hawkins, survives him.  He was employed by the 
Holliknoll Dairy as herd test man.

   Other survivors include five daughters, Mrs. Norman G. Lankford, Mrs. 
Irving Thomason, and Miss Anna Elizabeth Hawkins of Franklin, Mrs. Warner H. 
Moorefield of Suffolk, and Mrs. John M. Lynch of Mebane, N.C.; six sons, Colan 
D. Hawkins, Jr., Frank B. Hawkins, Thomas Edward Hawkins, and Howard Gerald 
Hawkins of Franklin, R.C. Hawkins of Clayton, N.C., and William Simpson 
Hawkins of Burlington, N.C.; and ten grandchildren.

   Funeral services for Mr. Hawkins were held at the Holland Funeral Home on 
Tuesday afternoon at five o’clock, with Rev. Randolph Gregory, pastor of the 
Baptist Church, officiating.  Interment was in Poplar Spring Cemetery, with 
the following acting as pallbearers: William Peace, Roy Gray, Harry Rutledge, 
Max Timberlake, R.D. Barham, Dr. Lemuel Branch, Walter Luther Young and 
Johnnie Johnson.


Colan Dee HAWKINS, Holliknoll Dairy herd test man, 
b. Frankfort, KY; formerly of NC; d. 21 Jun 1948, Franklin, age 64, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 228*), Franklin, 
   22 Jun 1948, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 25, 1948, p. 10 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
    Poplar Spring list: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

His wife's obituary ("Tidewater News," Jan. 6, 1950, p. 8) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/h252f1ob.txt 


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