Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Hundley, Minnie E., 1981 

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MINNIE ESTELLE HUNDLEY

   SEDLEY - A funeral service for Miss Minnie Estelle Hundley, 92, was 
held Sunday at 2:30 p.m. in Sedley Baptist Church by the Rev. James M. 
Fox.  Burial was in Rosemont Cemetery, Sedley, with military honors by 
the American Legion.  Wright Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements. 
Memorial donations may be made to Sedley Baptist Church.

   Miss Hundley died Thursday in East Pavilion, Franklin.

   She was a retired nurse, graduating in 1913 from St. Vincent’s 
Hospital in Norfolk, now DePaul hospital.  She was a veteran of the 
Mexican Border War, and World Wars I and II.

   A native of Sedley, she lived in California most of her life working 
as a nurse, both private and hospital duty.  She worked for a hospital 
for under-privileged children and in a defense factory during World War II.

   She enlisted in the Volunteer Nursing Corp. of the U.S. Army with 
Virginia Unit No. 41 in Richmond and had duty during the Mexican Border War 
from 1915-16.  During WWI Miss Hundley was sent to Saint Denis Hospital in 
Paris France.

   She was a member of Sedley Baptist Church and a charter member of the 
American Legion, when it formed in 1918, belonging to Post 73 in Franklin. 
The post presented her a lifetime membership card.

   Survivors include two nephews, Frank B. Hundley and Jack W. Hundley of 
Sedley; and two nieces, Mrs. William B. Simmons III of Courtland, and Mrs. 
Thomas A. Gillette Jr. of Norfolk; 13 great-nieces and nephews; and 14 
great-great nieces and nephews.


[Minnie Estelle HUNDLEY, formerly of CA, retired nurse, 
 Army veteran of the Mexican Border War, WW-I & WW-II, 
 Sedley native, d. 19 Nov 1981, Franklin, age 92, 
 interred in Rosemont Cemetery, Sedley, 22 Nov 1981, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 26, 1981, p. 6A] 

[*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
     Rosemont (S-38): 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/rosemont.txt] 

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