Southampton County-Chesapeake City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Peters, Richard A. Jr., 1966 

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RICHARD AUGUSTUS PETERS JR.

   CHESAPEAKE - Richard Augustus Peters, Jr., 65, died Tuesday in his home 
at 1123 Chesapeake Ave.

   A native of Franklin, he was the son of Richard Augustus and Mrs. Laura 
Emory Peters and the husband of the late Mrs. Florence Hardeman Peters.  He 
was a member of Franklin Baptist Church.

   Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Constance Bradshaw of Richmond and Miss 
Emory Ann Peters of Norfolk; two sisters, Mrs. Lorena Beale and Miss Blanche 
Peters of Franklin; two brothers, Patrick H. Peters of Richmond and James 
Shelton Peters of Falls Church; and two grandchildren.

   A funeral service was held Thursday at 11 a.m. in Poplar Spring Cemetery, 
Franklin, by the Rev. Ira D. Hudgins of Franklin Baptist Church.  The body 
is at W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home, Franklin.

   Pallbearers were Hinson Parker, Carl Steinhardt, Ellsworth Jones, G.E. 
Pillow, W.T. Pace Jr., Earnest G. Evans, Edward Gilliam and Joe King Jr.


Richard Augustus PETERS, Jr., 
Franklin native, d. 3 May 1966, at home, Chesapeake, age 65, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 156*), Franklin, 
   5 May 1966, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 5, 1966, p. 6 

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

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 26, 1937) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/p362l1ob.txt 


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