Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Newsome, Helen F.R. Burgess, 1981 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ HELEN BURGESS NEWSOME FRANKLIN - A funeral service for Mrs. Helen Burgess Newsome, 64, was held Friday at 4 p.m. in Wright Funeral Home by the Revs. Ira D. Hudgins and Stanley C. Burgess. Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery. Mrs. Newsoms died Tuesday night in Southampton Memorial Hospital. A native of Southampton county, she was the wife of Sidney C. Newsome. She was a member of Franklin Baptist Church. Other survivors include two daughters, Misses Romine Newsome and Jean N. Newsome of Franklin; a son, Sidney C. Newsome Jr. of Windsor; three brothers, the Rev. Stanley C. Burgess of Richmond, Clyde W. Burgess of Florida and Hubert H. Burgess of Colonial Heights; and two grandchildren. [Helen Florence Romine (BURGESS; Mrs. Sidney C. {Sr.}*) NEWSOME, d. 14 Jul 1981, Franklin, age 64, interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 3, Section C, Plot 49**), Franklin, 17 Jul 1981, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 20, 1981, p. 7] [*Sidney survived his wife by less than three weeks. His obit is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/n250s1ob.txt] [**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/n250h1ob.txt