Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Roberts, Frances L. Cobb, 1983 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ FRANCES LOUISE COBB ROBERTS FRANKLIN - A funeral for Frances Roberts, 68, was held Wednesday at 2 p.m. in Wright Funeral Home by the Rev. James Browder. Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery. Roberts died Monday in a hospital. She was a native of Southampton County, and the wife of James C. Roberts Jr. She had retired from a job at Peebles Department Store after 27 years. She was a member of Emmanuel Episcopal Church. Other survivors include a son, James C. Roberts III of Franklin; her mother, Margaret Whitley Cobb of Franklin; three sisters Mary C. Blythe, Margaret C. Burgess and Fay C. Shelton, all of Franklin; and a grandchild. Frances Louise (COBB; Mrs. James C. Jr.) ROBERTS, retired from Peebles Department Store, Southampton Co. native, d. 5 Dec 1983, age 68, interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 125*), Franklin, 7 Dec 1983, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 8, 1983, p. 8A *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt Her father's obit ("Tidewater News," Oct. 17, 1941), with his marriage record appended, is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c100f2ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/r163f2ob.txt