Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Powell, Mary B. Raiford, 1963 

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MARY BURGESS RAIFORD POWELL 

   Mrs. Mary Raiford Powell, 86, a native of Southampton County, died Sunday 
night in the home of her daughter, Mrs. C.W. Bulls, after a short illness.

   She was the widow of Samuel J. Powell and a daughter of Henry and Mrs. 
Martha Elizabeth Raiford of Southampton County.  She was a member of Black 
Creek Baptist Church.

   Besides her daughter, surviving are three other daughters, Mrs. Hilda Story 
of Norfolk, Mrs. Wallace Branch of Newport News and Mrs. Paul Branch of Ivor; 
five sons, Hudson Powell of Hagerstown, Md., Raleigh A. Powell of Washington, 
Earl Powell and Paul Powell of Suffolk and Fletcher R. Powell of Los Angeles; 
12 grandchildren and 14 grandchildren.

   A funeral service was conducted Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. in W.J.M. Holland and 
Sons Funeral Home by the Rev. C.L. Gatling of Black Creek Baptist Church. 
Burial will be in the church cemetery.


"Mollie" Mary Burgess (RAIFORD; Mrs. S.J. "Candy") POWELL, 
Southampton Co. native, formerly of Nansemond Co., 
d. 7 Apr 1963, at daughter's home, near Franklin, age 86, 
interred in Black Creek Baptist Church Cemetery*, 9 Apr 1963, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 11, 1963, Sect. I, p. 6 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Black Creek list (BC-26): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/blkcrk.txt 

Her parents are buried in the RAIFORD-MUNFORD family cemetery, on Appleton Rd. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 8 (MV-VIII-8).
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol8.txt 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 19, 1948, p. 14) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/p400s3ob.txt 


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

file at: 
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