Southampton County-Virginia Beach City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Lankford, James I., 1959 

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JAMES IRVIN LANKFORD

JAS. IRVIN LANKFORD BURIED HERE TODAY

   James Irvin Lankford, 49, husband of Mrs. Margaret Baxter Lankford of 33 
Bay Drive, Linier, Virginia Beach, was buried today at one p.m. in Poplar 
Spring Cemetery.

   Funeral services had been held at the Cox Funeral Home, Norfolk , at 11 
a.m. by the Rev. P. Rowland Wagner, retired pastor of Central Baptist Church, 
Norfolk.

   Services at the grave were conducted by the Rev. Ira Hudgins, pastor of 
the Franklin Baptist Church and the Rev. Thomas Downing, pastor of Sycamore 
Baptist Church, of which he was a member.  Ruth Lodge, A.F. & A.M. conducted 
rites.

   Mr. Lankford, son of Samuel Winfield Lankford and the late Mrs. Clara 
Cotton Lankford, was a native of Southampton.  He had resided in the Norfolk-
Virginia Beach area for 30 years.

   He died suddenly Friday afternoon at Georgetown University Hospital, 
Washington, D.C., after suffering a stroke the day before.

   He was assistant general agent for the Lincoln National Life Insurance Co. 
in Norfolk.  He was a member of the Sycamore Baptist church, Franklin, the 
Virginia Beach Lions Club, the Norfolk Sports Club, Ruth Lodge, A.F. & A.M.; 
the Scottish Rites Bodies, Khedive Temple, A.A.O.N.M.S., the Virginia Beach-
Princess Anne Shrine Club and the Norfolk Life Underwriters Assn.

   Besides his wife and father, surviving are two sons, James Irvin Lankford, 
Jr., of Aruba, Netherlands Antilles, and Carl Baxter Lankford of Virginia 
Beach; one daughter, Margaret Eggleston Lankford, also of Virginia Beach; one 
grandson, James Irvin Lankford, III, also of Aruba; four sisters, Mrs. H.A. 
Walker, Mrs. W.H. Thompson and Mrs. S.W. Woods, all of Norfolk, and Mrs. B.P. 
Bland of Richmond; five brothers, Samuel W. Lankford, Jr., of Norfolk; Royce 
B. Lankford of Nashville, N.C.; Hudson O. Lankford, William E. Lankford and 
Aubrey Lankford, all of Franklin; 14 nieces and nephews.


James Irvin LANKFORD, of Virginia Beach, life-insurance agent, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 15 May 1959, Washington, DC, age 49, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 3, Section A, Plot 6*), Franklin, 
   18 May 1959, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 18, 1959, Sect. I, p. 10 

*His parents are also buried there. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx3.txt 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Nov. 7, 1952, p. 11), 
   with her marriage record appended, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/l521c3ob.txt 


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