Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Richardson, Mary S. Daughtrey, 1969 

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MARY SUE RICHARDSON

   A graveside funeral service for Mrs. Mary Sue Richardson, 57, who drowned 
in a pond in the western part of Franklin Saturday night was conducted Monday 
at 3 p.m. in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk by the Rev. Charles Smith of 
Franklin Congregational Christian Church and the Rev. Edwin C. Thornton Jr. of 
Beaver Dam Baptist Church.  W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home was in charge.

   Pallbearers were Bill Richardson, Bob Richardson, Aubrey Fitzgerald, Jarvis 
Howell Jr., Emmett Rawls Jr., and Howard Richardson Jr.

   Members of the Franklin Rescue Squad found her body after dragging the pond 
about 8:30 p.m., Dr. W.O. Ward, medical examiner, reported.  She had been 
missing for some hours and a search was made in that area, since she had been 
know to take frequent walks there.

   The pond, near Poplar Spring Cemetery, is about four blocks from her home 
and is near the Norfolk, Franklin & Danville Railway.

   Mrs. Richardson was the wife of Donald B. Richardson, who is employed in 
the Union Camp Corp. offices here.  The body was taken to the Holland Funeral 
Home.

   Mrs. Richardson, a native of Nansemond County, was a daughter of the late 
Jasper and Susie Carson Daughtrey.  She was a member of Franklin 
Congregational Christian Church.

   She is survived by her husband; five sisters, Mrs. Dorothy Anderson of 
Richmond, Mrs. Elsie Godfrey of Virginia Beach, Mrs. Edith Rawls and Mrs. 
Jarvis Howell of Holland, and Mrs. Ida Graves of Lacey Spring, and two 
brothers, Hunter and Jasper Daughtrey of Carrsville.


Mary Sue (DAUGHTREY; Mrs. Donald B.) RICHARDSON, 
Nansemond Co. native, drowned 25 Jan 1969, Franklin, age 57, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block Y, Lot 11), Suffolk, 27 Jan 1969, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 30, 1969, p. 3 


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