Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Raiford, Fannie Barnes, 1970 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ SARAH FRANCES BARNES RAIFORD A funeral service for Mrs. Fannie Barnes Raiford was conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday in W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Chapel by the Rev. Joseph L. McTeer. Burial was in Rosemont Cemetery, Sedley. Pallbearers were Hubert Raiford, Beaury Raiford, Lee Raiford, Ollie Johnson, Marion Raiford, John Wade, Paul Stephenson and Billy Wade. Mrs. Raiford, 90, died Sunday morning in a Ypsilanti, Mich., nursing home. A native of Southampton County, she was the widow of Willie N. Raiford and a daughter of John C. and Mrs. Sarah Bradshaw Barnes. She was a member of Millfield Baptist Church. Surviving are a son, John Shelton Raiford of Franklin; a brother, Sam D. Barnes of Roanoke Rapids, N.C.; three grandchildren; and seven great- grandchildren. [Sarah Frances "Fannie" (BARNES; Mrs. Wm. "Willie" N.) RAIFORD, Southampton Co. native, d. 18 Jan 1970, Ypsilanti, MI, age 90, interred in Rosemont Cemetery*, Sedley, 20 Jan 1970, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 22, 1970] [*Southampton County Historical Society Cemetery Project, Rosemont (S-58): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/rosemont.txt] Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by William J. DelMonte (JazzyBill@aol.com) & Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/r163f1ob.txt