Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Lankford, Mildred Cook, 1971 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ MILDRED COOK LANKFORD A funeral service for Mrs. Mildred Cook Lankford, 601 Pace St., Franklin, will be held Thursday, July 22, in W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Chapel by the Rev. Ira D. Hudgins. Burial will be in Poplar Springs Cemetery. Pallbearers are Jimmy Wright, Tommy Holland, Billy Williams, Bobby Atkinson, Otto Halstead, Jasper Eley, Paul Councill Jr., Willie Weede and Alden H. Gee. A native of Alabama, she was the wife of William E. Lankford and a daughter of Mrs. C.F. Cook of Franklin. She was a retired florist. She was a member of Franklin Baptist Church. Besides her husband and mother, surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Linda Lou Zacuto of Los Angeles; and a sister, Mrs. Quida McClendon of Opelika, Ala. Mildred (COOK; Mrs. William E.) LANKFORD, of Franklin, retired florist, AL native, d. 20 Jul 1971, age 50, interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 3, Section A, Plot 6*), Franklin, 22 Jul 1971, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 22, 1971, p. 10 *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx3.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/l521m3ob.txt