Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pace, Meta G. Parker, 1921 

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META GOODMAN PARKER PACE

   Mrs. Meta Parker Pace, the beloved wife of W.T. Pace of this town, died 
suddenly at her home here Tuesday night, May 24, at about 11:45 o’clock.  She 
had been in declining health for some months, but the end came almost 
unexpectedly with a heart attack.  The deceased was 56 years of age.

   Mrs. Pace was Miss Meta Goodman Parker, the daughter of the late Goodman D. 
Parker and Caroline S. Parker of Murfreesboro, N.C.  She was married March 28, 
1888, and since the date of her marriage had been a resident of this town. 
Few women of Franklin were better know or more universally liked than she. 
Her life radiated sunshine, generosity and neighborliness.  In her home life 
she might well be compared to that beautiful character of whom Solomon wrote, 
"Her children arise up and call her blessed; her husband also, and he praiseth 
her".  As helpmate and mother and as the mistress of a happy and well-ordered 
home, her life had been unselfishly spent for the happiness and comfort of her 
family.  She was a faithful and consistent Christian, a loyal communicant of 
the M.E. Church and a useful member of the woman’s organizations of the local 
church.

   Besides her husband she is survived by seven children, Miss Lelia P. Pace, 
W.T., Jr., and J.J. Pace of Franklin; Frank S. Pace of Norfolk, H. Leigh Pace, 
a student at V.M.I., Lexington; Miss M. Louise Pace, who attends the Randolph-
Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, and Emmett H. Pace of Franklin.

   The funeral services were conducted from the residence in Second avenue 
Thursday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock  by her pastor, Rev. J.A. Chapman, of High 
Street M.E. Church, assisted by Rev. R.M. Chandler of Portsmouth, Rev. W.L. 
Burks of McKenny, Va., and Dr. C.H. Rowland of the Franklin Christian Church. 
Interment following in the family plot at Poplar Spring Cemetery where a large 
concourse of friends were present to pay the last tribute of love and 
affection to their friend and neighbor.  The active pallbearers were General 
C.C. Vaughan, E. Frank Story, S.R. Nicholson, J.A. Jackson, E.T. FitzGerald, 
Dr. W.E. Snipes, J.B. Gay, Geo. R. Hayes; honorary, A.L. Gardner, Dr. W.H. 
Arthur, M.H. Moore, Dr. R.H. Cobb, P.D. Camp, J.L. Camp, W.O. Bristow, J.E. 
Moyler, C.W. Gary, Roger I. Beale, W.H. Stroud, J.A. Weede, E.G. Evans, C.E. 
Pond, J.R. Byrd, G.G. McCann, Dr. J.C. Rawls.


Meta Goodman (PARKER; Mrs. "Willie" T. Sr.) PACE, 
Murfreesboro, NC native, d. 24 May 1921, at home, Franklin, age 56, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 20*), Franklin, 
   26 May 1921, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 27, 1921, p. 1 

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

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


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