Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Manry, William L., 1965 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ WILLIAM LUTHER MANRY CAPRON - William Luther Manry, 76, retired farmer, died Wednesday afternoon in his home. Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Nettie Jenkins Manry; a daughter, Mrs. Margaret Manry Babb of Courtland; a granddaughter Ann Gary of Courtland; and two brothers, John K. Manry of Portsmouth and Donald C. Manry of Capron. A funeral service was held Friday at 2 p.m. in Echols Funeral Home, Emporia, by the Rev. C.B. Spivey. Burial was in the family cemetery at Capron.* Pallbearers were Dr. J.J. Grizzard, Will Lee Everett Jr., Marvin Everett, Lewis Babb, George Ward Williams, Kenny Jenkins, Joe Everett, Charles Wheeler. [William Luther MANRY, retired farmer, d. 8 Sep 1965, at home, age 76, interred in the MANRY family cemetery*, near Joyner, 10 Sep 1965, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Sep. 13, 1965, p. 2] [*While described as at Capron in text, the cemetery is located near Joyner, on the Bruce PHILLIPS farm, which William MANRY owned at his death, on Raccoon Creek Dr., off Pope Station Rd (Rt. 609). Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 9 (IX-10): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol9.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/m560w1ob.txt