Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Lassiter, Charles F., 1954 

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CHARLES FRANCIS LASSITER 

   Charles Francis Lassiter died unexpectedly on Thursday evening, November 4, 
about 6:30 o’clock, at the residence in Portsmouth of his daughter, Mrs. 
Clarence Woodard.

   He was a native of Northampton County, N.C., he was a member of the Newsoms 
Methodist Church.

   Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Minnie Gray Lassister; one other daughter, 
Mrs. Bennett N. Davis, and one son, Charles Francis Lassiter, Jr., both of 
Portsmouth; and nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

   Funeral rites were conducted in the Newsoms Baptist Church on Saturday 
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock by the pastor, Rev. L.F. Smith.  Interment was in 
the Newsoms Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were Jim Cook, Irvin Drake, Russell Drake, R.H. Ferguson, 
Willie Ferguson and Johnnie Gray.


Charles Francis LASSITER, retired farmer, 
Northampton Co., NC native, 
d. 4 Nov 1954, at daughter's home, Portsmouth, age 81, 
interred in Hollywood Cemetery*, Newsoms, 6 Nov 1954, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 11, 1954 

*His widow [2m. COGSDALE; 3m. BRYANT] is also listed there, 
   though her 1977 D.Cert. gives bu. Beechwood Cemetery, Boykins]. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Hollywood list (N-11&43): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/hollywd.txt 


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