Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Jakeman, George A., 1969 

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GEORGE ARTHUR JAKEMAN

   A funeral service for George Arthur Jakeman was conducted Monday at 3 p.m. 
in W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home by Dr. Ira D. Hudgins of Franklin 
Baptist Church. Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were Homer Parker, D.A. Gooden, W.L. Thompson Jr., Norman 
Gillette, Francis Clark, Jackson Wade, W.B. Pierce and Charles A. Wieters.

   Jakeman, 51, of 309 S. High St. died in a Petersburg hospital Saturday 
night.

   A native of Nansemond County, he lived here 22 years.  He was the husband 
of Mrs. Mary Ann Baker Jakeman and a son of Wilson Arthur and Mrs. Mary J. 
Copeland Jakeman.

   He worked for Cavalier Vending Machine Co.  He was a member of Franklin 
Baptist Church and Franklin Masonic Lodge 151.

   He was a World War II veteran.

   Besides his widow, surviving are a son, George Arthur Jakeman Jr. of 
Plymouth, N.C.; two daughters, Mrs. Frank R. Ranson of Norfolk and Mrs. Roger 
R. Drake of Newsoms; three brothers, E.T. Jakeman and M.C. Jakeman of Suffolk, 
and W.W. Jakeman of Whaleyville; two sisters, Mrs. Harry Christianson of 
Danville, and Mrs. C.B. Fields of Chicago; two half sisters, Mrs. John Bright 
of Suffolk and Mrs. Weldon Hobbs of Hobbsville, N.C.; two granddaughters; and 
stepmother, Mrs. Jakeman of Suffolk.


George Arthur JAKEMAN (Sr.), of Franklin, Cavalier Vending Machine employee, 
Army veteran of WW-II, 
Nansemond Co. native, d. 15 Feb 1969, Petersburg, age 51, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 3, Section B, Plot 87B*), Franklin, 
   17 Feb 1969, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 20, 1969, Section II, p. 8 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
    Poplar Spring list: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx3.txt 

His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," Nov. 10, 1980, p. 14) is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/j255m1ob.txt 


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