Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Piersa, Chester J. Sr., 1971 

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CHESTER JOSEPH PIERSA 

   A Requiem Mass was said for Chester Joseph Piersa Sr. at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday 
in St. Jude’s Catholic Church by Father Phillip Farrell.  The Rosary was 
recited Monday night at 8 p.m. in W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home.  Burial 
was in Southampton Memorial Park.

   Pallbearers were Starkie Perry, R.C. Burton, Stanley King, Edgar Knight, 
G.T. Everett, Joe Modlin, Eley Vann and R.W. McCoy.

   Piersa Sr., 60, died Friday at 2 p.m. in Southampton Memorial Hospital.

   A native of Monessen, Pa., he was a son of Adam and Mrs. Marcy Anna Drucka 
Piersa and the husband of Mrs. Annie G. Piersa.

   He was a member of St. Jude’s Catholic Church, Woodmen of the World, Moose 
Lodge 141, and Bronco Hunt Club.

   Besides his wife, he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Freddie Jackson of 
Crosby, Miss; three sons, Stanley Piersa and William Piersa of Franklin and 
Larry H. Piersa of Ft. Lee Air Force Base; and ten grandchildren.


Chester Joseph PIERSA, Sr., 
Monessen, PA native, d. 7 Feb 1971, Franklin, age 60, 
interred in Southampton Memorial Park (Christus I, Plot 6*), 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 11, 1971, Sect. II, p. 11 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Southampton Memorial Park list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/somempk.txt 


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