Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pace, Henderson L., 1969 

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HENDERSON LEIGH PACE

   A graveside funeral service for Henderson Leigh Pace is scheduled for 11 
a.m. Friday in Poplar Spring Cemetery by the Rev. Robert D. Fridley of High 
Street United Methodist Church.  W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home will be 
in charge.

   Pallbearers will be Glen Lanier, W.R. Atkinson Jr., Hap Purnell, Bill 
Davis, W.N. Rose, Russell Cotton, Maxie Day and Edward Gilliam.

   Pace, 69, a hardware merchant, died Tuesday at 5:30 p.m. in Southampton 
Memorial Hospital after a long illness.

   A native of Franklin, he was a son of William Thomas Pace and Mrs. Meta 
Parker Pace and the husband of Adelaide Bradshaw Pace.

   A 1922 graduate of Virginia Military Institute, he operated W.T. Pace 
Hardware Co. many years.

   He was past worshipful master of Queen City Masonic 602, Rocky Mount, a 
member of High Street United Methodist Church and a former Sunday school 
superintendent.

   Besides his widow, surviving are two sons, H. Leigh Pace Jr. and Roy Carter 
Pace of Newport News; two daughters, Mrs. Janet P. Gladstone of Skaneateles, 
N.Y., and Mrs. Sue P. Bass of Portsmouth; two sisters, Miss Lelia Pace and 
Mrs. Louise P. Mathews of Franklin; three brothers, W.T. Pace Jr. and John 
James Pace of Franklin and Emmett H. Pace of Wheeling, W.Va., and Hollywood, 
Fla.; and six grandchildren.


Henderson Leigh PACE (Sr.), hardware merchant, 
Franklin native, d. 25 Nov 1969, Franklin, age 69, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 20*), Franklin, 
   28 Nov 1969, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 27, 1969, Section II, p. 4 

*His parents are also buried there. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

His widow's obit ("Virginian-Pilot," May 16, 2000, B8) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/p200a1ob.txt 

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," Sep. 2, 1954) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/p200w2ob.txt 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," May 27, 1921, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/p200m1ob.txt 


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