Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Lassiter, William R., 1965 

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WILLIAM RIDDICK LASSITER

   BOYKINS - William Riddick Lassiter, 50, died early Sunday in a Richmond 
hospital after a long illness.

   A native of Fitzgerald, Ga., he lived here 23 years.  He was a carpenter.

   He was a son of the late Cornelius and Mrs. Sara Bagley Lassiter.

   Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Kathleen Brand Lassiter; a sister, Mrs. 
Louise L. Jones of Portsmouth; and two brothers, Jerome Lassiter and Edward 
Lassiter of Suffolk.

   A funeral was held Monday in Beechwood Cemetery by the Rev. Ben B. Ussery 
of Boykins Baptist Church.  McDowell Funeral Home had charge.

   Pallbearers were J.C. Blow, Hugh Powell, Jr., Benjamin Porter, Henry Ricks, 
Bob White, W.H. Britt, L.P. Clary Jr. and Hugh Drake.


[William Riddick LASSITER, carpenter, 
 Fitzgerald, GA native, d. 2 May 1965, Richmond, age 50, 
 interred in Beechwood Cemetery (Annex 3, Section K, Plot 3), Boykins, 
    3 May 1965, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 6, 1965, p. 11] 

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