Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Parker, Lucy M. Minton, 1960 

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LUCY MAE MINTON PARKER

   Mrs. Lucy Mae Minton Parker, 80, died Monday at her home after a 
lingering illness.

   The wife of Benjamin Franklin Parker, she was a daughter of Fletcher 
and Elizabeth Bazemore Minton of Bertie County, N.C.  She was a member 
of Lewiston Baptist Church, Lewiston, N.C.

   Surviving besides her husband are four daughters, Mrs. Julia Spence 
of Franklin, Mrs. Helena Joyner of Handsom, Mrs. Lillian Pittman of 
Whitakers, N.C., and Mrs. Grover Kizer of Holland; six sons, Charlie H. 
Parker of Portsmouth, Frank Clifton Parker of Sedley and Robert Frederick 
Parker, Wade Hampton Parker, Ralph Minton Parker and Jasper Wilson Parker 
of Franklin; two sisters Mrs. Tullie Leake of Rich Square, N.C., and Mrs. 
Annie Modlin of Ahoskie, N.C., 27 grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren.

   Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. in the Holland 
Funeral Chapel by the Rev. Ira D. Hudgins of Franklin Baptist Church and 
the Rev. Thomas Downing of Sycamore Baptist Church.  Burial was in Poplar 
Spring Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were Robert F. Parker, Jr., Clyde Parker, Melvin Ellis, 
Harry Ellis, Franklin Ellis and Jo Spence.


Lucy Mae* (MINTON; Mrs. Benjamin F.) PARKER, 
Bertie Co., NC native?, d. 1 Feb 1960, at home, age 80, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 3, Section B, Plot 60B*), Franklin, 
   16 Feb 1960, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 4, 1960, p. 2A 

*Cemetery list gives Lucy May. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project,
   Poplar Spring list:
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx3.txt 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Apr. 9, 1962, p. 7) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/p626l2ob.txt 


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