Southampton-Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Presson, Luther J., 1939 

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LUTHER JOSHUA PRESSON 

PRESSON FUNERAL TO BE HELD TODAY

   WAKEFIELD - Funeral services for L.J. Presson, 67, Mayor of Dendron, will 
be held at the home in Dendron at 2:30 P.M. Thursday, with interment in the 
Rocky Hock Cemetery.  The Rev. B.H. Watkins, pastor of the Wakefield Christian 
Church, will be in charge of the services, with the Rev. Robert H. Humphrey, 
pastor of the Rocky Hock Methodist Church, assisting.

   Mayor Presson had been in failing health for some time.  He died Tuesday 
in a Richmond hospital.  He was a merchant, former member of the town council, 
a member of the Dendron Christian Church and active in civic and church 
affairs.

   He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Alice Cobb of Dendron, and Miss 
Bessie Lee Presson, Washington; one grandchild; one brother, J. Henley Presson 
of Wakefield, and one sister, Mrs. W.H. Joyner of Courtland.


Luther Joshua PRESSON, Mayor of Dendron, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 4 Apr 1939, Richmond, age 67, 
interred in Rocky Hock Methodist Church Cemetery, 2745 Whitemarsh Rd.*, 
   6 Apr 1939, 
"The Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," Apr. 6, 1939, p. 12 

*The church is in Surry Co., between Dendron and Wakefield, although its 
   postal address is Wakefield - which is in Sussex Co.  
   See the Rocky Hock UMC website: 
   http://www.rockyhockumc.org/ 

Photos of his grave markers are posted at Find a Grave Mem. #137093687. 

His brother Henley's obit ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," May 15, 1945, p. 17) 
   is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/p625h2ob.txt 


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