Southampton-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Owney, Virginia L. Giles, 1983 

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VIRGINIA LEIGH GILES OWNEY 

   IVOR - A funeral service for Virginia Giles Owney, 64, was held at 2 p.m. 
Wednesday in Purviance Funeral Chapel, Wakefield, by the Rev. J. Lytle 
Buckingham.  Burial was in Ivor Cemetery. 

   Pallbearers were: Merrill Carr Sr., Merrill Carr, Jr., James N. Nash, 
Massey Joyner, Joe Hobbs, Fred Ashby, J. Russell West and Frankie Britt. 

   Mrs. Owney died Monday in her home. 

   A native of Isle of Wight County, she was a former nurse’s aide.  Mrs. 
Owney was a member of Ivor Baptist church and a charter member of the Ivor 
Rescue Squad. 

   Survivors include her husband, Joseph Wilson Owney; three daughters, 
Carolyn O. Carr and Brenda Joyner both of Ivor, and Phyllis Perkins of 
Williamsburg; a son, Joseph W. (Buddy) Owney of Suffolk; two sisters, 
Dorothy Lassiter of Williamsburg and Audrey Chapman of Windsor; two brothers, 
W. Randolph Giles of Ivor and Seward Giles of Sedley; six grandchildren; and 
two great-grandchildren. 

   Memorial donations may be made to the Ivor Rescue Squad. 


Virginia Leigh (GILES; Mrs. H. McGuire) OWNEY, former nurse's aide, 
Isle of Wight Co. native, d. 28 Mar 1983, at home, Ivor, age 64, 
interred in Ivor Cemetery*, 30 Mar 1983, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 31, 1983, p. 5A 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Ivor list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/ivor.txt 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Dec. 30, 1965, p. 9) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/d420h1ob.txt 


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