Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Lamb, Rena D. Whitehead, 1969 

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RENA DOROTHY WHITEHEAD LAMB 

   CAPRON - A funeral service for Mrs. Rena Whitehead Lamb was conducted at 
2 p.m. Saturday in the Capron United Methodist Church by the Rev. Roy Arnold 
and the Rev. John Carr.  Burial was in Capron Cemetery with Echols Funeral 
Home, Emporia, in charge.

   Pallbearers were Robert F. Parker Jr., Clyde Parker, Frankie Parker, Jack 
Byrd, Beverly Byrd, Herman McCann Jr., Leo Winston and James Ellis.

   Mrs. Lamb, 94, the widow of Benjamin F. Lamb, died Thursday morning in the 
home of a daughter, Mrs. Daisy Parker in Suffolk, after illness of two years.

   A native of Southampton County, she was a daughter of Nicholas and Mrs. 
Mary Davis Whitehead.

   She was a member of Capron Baptist Church and its Women’s Missionary 
Society and formerly taught Sunday school.

   Besides Mrs. Parker, surviving are five other daughters, Mrs. Dorothy Byrd 
of Suffolk, Mrs. Annie McCann of Crewe, Mrs. Lillian Parker of Franklin, Mrs. 
Ruby Jordan of Courtland, and Mrs. Willie Winston of Durham, N.C.; two sons, 
Johnnie Lamb of Durham and George Lamb of Capron; 19 grandchildren; 37 great-
grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.


Rena Dorothy (WHITEHEAD; Mrs. Benjamin F.) LAMB, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 19 Jun 1969, Suffolk, age 94, 
interred in Capron Cemetery*, 21 Jun 1969, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 23, 1969, p. 6 

*Additional information: 

Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Capron list (C-24): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/capron.txt 

Her parents & paternal grandparents are buried in a WHITEHEAD family cemetery. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 8 (VIII-62): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol8.txt 

Her maternal grandparents are buried in a WILLIAMS-DAVIS family cemetery. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 7 (VII-40): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol7.txt 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Feb. 25, 1938, p. 7) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/l510b2ob.txt 


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