Southampton County-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Lankford, Samuel W. Jr., 1963 

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SAMUEL WINFIELD LANKFORD, JR. 

   FRANKLIN - Funeral services for Samuel W. Lankford, Jr., 52, who died 
Wednesday morning in Norfolk, were conducted Friday morning at 11 o’clock 
in the H.D. Oliver Funeral Home, Norfolk by Rev. Vivian Evans of Chesapeake. 
Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery, Franklin.

   Mr. Lankford, a native of the Franklin community, was the son of the late 
Samuel W. and Mrs. Clara Cotton Lankford of Southampton County and the husband 
of Mrs. Lee Wilson Lankford of Norfolk.

   In addition to his wife, he is survived by four sisters, Mrs. Bennie Bland 
of Richmond and Mrs. Sam Woods, Mrs. Henry Walker and Mrs. Williams Thompson, 
all of Norfolk; and four brothers, Hudson Lankford, William Lankford and 
Aubrey Lankford, all of Franklin, and Royce Lankford of Nashville, N.C.

   Pallbearers were William, Aubrey and Royce Lankford, Sam Woods, Bennie 
Bland, Bill Thompson, Harry Walker and Jesse Frank Vaughan.


Samuel Winfield LANKFORD, Jr., of Norfolk, 
director of administrative div., Oceana N.A.B., Virginia Beach, 
Franklin native, suicide d. 16 Jan 1963, at work, age 52, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 3, Section A, Plot 6*), Franklin, 
   18 Jan 1958, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 24, 1958, Sect. II, p. 1 

*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 

His first wife, Margaret Mae (SHAW) LANKFORD, is buried in 
   Forest Lawn Cemetery, Norfolk. 


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and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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