Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Kernodle, Virginia Beale, 1963 

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VIRGINIA BEALE KERNODLE

MRS. KERNODLE, 72, DIES; TAUGHT IN VA., N.C.

   Mrs. Virginia Beale Kernodle, 72, of 1501 Libbie Ave., died yesterday at a 
local hospital.

   She was a 1913 graduate of Elon College on North Carolina; a member of the 
Eastern Star, the Daughters of 1812, and First Congregational Christian Church.

   She also taught in the public schools in Virginia and North Carolina.

   Mrs. Kernodle was once secretary of Dr. W.T. Sanger, then secretary of the 
Virginia State Board of Education.

   She was later secretary of Dr. Walter S. Newman of the Division of Vocational 
Agriculture. She worked with him and Professor Henry C. Groseclose of Virginia 
Polytechnic Institute in organizing the Future Farmer of Virginia, which later 
became the pattern on which the national "Future Farmers of America" was formed. 
She retired in 1946.

   Mrs. Kernodle is survived by her husband, John T. Kernodle, managing editor 
for many years of the only weekly publication of the Congregational Christian 
Church; one brother, Walter Lee Beale of Norfolk; and several nieces and nephews.

   Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. tomorrow at the Billups Funeral 
Home, with burial at 2 p.m. in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk.


[Virginia (BEALE; Mrs. John T.) KERNODLE, d. 21 Jan 1963, Richmond, age 72, 
 interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block E, Lot 47), Suffolk, 
 "The Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," ca. Jan. 22, 1963] 

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