Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Keen, Joseph R., 1952 

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JOSEPH RICHARD KEEN

   Funeral services for Joseph Richard Keen, 71, a lifelong resident of 
Nansemond County, who died in Raiford Memorial Hospital on Wednesday night, 
January 16, were held at the grave in Poplar Spring Cemetery on Friday 
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock.  Officiating were Revs. J.G. Lanning of the South 
Quay Baptist Church and Edwin C. Thornton of the Beaver Dam Baptist Church.

   The pallbearers were H.C., H.M., J.F, R.L., and S.O. Butler, Clyde 
Cutchins, Moody Gardner and R.L. Miles.

   The deceased was the son of the late Benjamin F. Keen and Otelia Gardner 
Keen, and the husband of Mrs. Lizzie Butler Keen of Holland, who survives him. 
Other survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Tenie Saunders of Carrsville; a son, J.B. 
Keen of Holland; two grandchildren and one great-grandchild; and a sister, 
Mrs. Susie Brown of Virginia Beach.


Joseph Richard KEEN, 
lifelong resident of Nansemond Co., d. 16 Jan 1952, Franklin, age 71, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 3, Section A, Plot 7*), Franklin, 
   18 Jan 1952, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 25, 1952, p. 9 

*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," Oct. 13, 1955, Sect. I, p. 8) 
   is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/k500e1ob.txt 


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