Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Raiford, Herman C., 1967 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ HERMAN CLYDE RAIFORD FRANKLIN - A funeral service for Herman Clyde Raiford was conducted Tuesday, July 25 at 2 p.m. in Hall-Wynne Funeral Home, Durham, by the Rev. Warren Carr. Burial was in Mountain View Baptist Church cemetery, on Rt. 3, near King, N.C. Raiford, 68, retired secretary-director of the Durham, N.C., YMCA and Boys Camp, died in Southampton Memorial Hospital Sunday morning. He was visiting here when stricken. He was the husband of Mrs. Nell Carroll Raiford and a son of William Burgess and Mrs. Ella Dora Hedgepeth Raiford of Southampton County. He was a member of Watts Baptist Church, Durham, and a graduate of Guilford College. Besides his widow, surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Claiborne Whitehead of St. Louis, Mo.; a sister, Mrs. C.K. Stroud of Chapel Hill, N.C.; a brother, Algie Raiford of Ivor; and two grandchildren. Herman Clyde RAIFORD, of Durham, NC, retired secretary-director of the Durham YMCA & Boys Camp, Ivor native, d. 23 Jul 1967, Franklin, age 68, interred in Mountain View Baptist Church Cemetery*, Stokes Co., NC, 25 Jul 1967, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 27, 1967, p. 11 *Monument pictured with his Find a Grave Mem., #81422858. His parents are buried in Rosemont Cemetery, Sedley. Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Rosemont list (S-58): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/rosemont.txt His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Aug. 15, 1947, p. 7) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/r163e3ob.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/r163h3ob.txt