Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Peters, J. Lomax, 1941 

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JOHN LOMAX PETERS 

   J. Lomax Peters, aged 26, died at 4:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon after 
an illness of many months at the home of his sister, Mrs. N.M. Bolton, of 
Fincastle.  He was the son of Mrs. Annie Eugenia Peters, and the late R.H. 
Peters of Franklin.

   He is survived by his mother, two brothers P.W. Peters of Manassas and 
R.H. Peters of Franklin; four sisters, Mrs. M.N. Bolton and Mrs. F.D. Bolton 
of Fincastle, Mrs. H.S. Carpenter, Jr. of Erie, Penn., and Mrs. Howard Holland 
of Suffolk.

   Services were conducted Thursday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock in the Holland 
Funeral Chapel by the Rev. R.D. Stephenson and the Rev. Benjamin B. Bland.  A 
quartette sang "Safe in the Arms of Jesus" and "Now the Day is Over," 
accompanied by J. Edgar Weede.

   Burial took place in Poplar Spring Cemetery, pallbearers being Pat Peters, 
Ashby Rawls, George Warren Conwell, Elliott Whitfield, Frank Day, Allan Soble 
and Redwood Councill and Ray Baird of Suffolk.


J. Lomax PETERS, former salesman, 
b. 12 Nov 1914, Franklin, 15 Apr 1941, at sister's home, Fincastle, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 89*), Franklin, 
   17 Apr 1941, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 18, 1941 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

His father's obit ("Virginian-Pilot," Mar. 23, 1936, p. 9) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/p362r3ob.txt 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Feb. 15, 1962, p. 3) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/p362a1ob.txt 

Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 9819 (Amsterdam #9), states that he fell Oct 1939 
   in his room at Western State Hospital, Staunton, breaking his neck and 
   severing his spinal cord. 


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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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