Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Humphries, Rev. Tucker G., 1967 

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REV. TUCKER GRAVES HUMPHRIES

   FRANKLIN - Funeral services for the Rev. Tucker Graves Humphries is 
scheduled for Thursday at 4 p.m. in the Franklin Congregational Christian 
Church by Dr. William T. Scott of Elon College, a former pastor and the Rev. 
St. Elmo Nauman of Franklin Congregational Christian Church.  Burial will be 
in Poplar Spring cemetery.

   The family has requested that flowers be omitted.  The body will be in the 
church at 3 p.m. Thursday.

   Pallbearers will be T. Hayes Holland, R. Elsworth Jones, William Thomas 
Jones, Harvey Lankford Jr., Edwin Beale, John Galloway, J. Vaughan Beale, Dr. 
Darden W. Jones, Raymond Porter and W. Tall Jones.

   Humphries, 67, retired minister of Franklin Congregational Christian 
Church, died Monday in Southampton Memorial Hospital after a long illness.

   He retired in 1962 because of ill health.

   A native of Pennsylvania, he was the husband of Mrs. Flora Mae (Jerry) 
Humphries and a son of Edward C.R. and Mrs. Katherine Riley Humphries.

   He was a past president of the Franklin Parent-Teacher Association, a 
counselor of the Franklin churches, and a member of Franklin Lions Club.

   Besides his widow, surviving is a daughter, Mrs. William Rainourd of 
Atlanta.


Rev. Tucker Graves HUMPHRIES, 
retired minister of Franklin Congregational Christian Church, 
PA native, d. 3 Jul 1967, age 67, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 61A*), Franklin, 
   6 Jul 1967, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 6, 1967, p. 3 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
    Poplar Spring list: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 


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