Southampton-Isle of Wight-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Ritter, Joseph M., 1970 

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JOSEPH MARTIN RITTER 

   ZUNI - A funeral service for Joseph Martin Ritter was conducted Thursday at 
2 p.m. in Sidney F. Harrell Funeral Home, Suffolk, by the Rev. William B. 
Denston, the Rev. Grover C. Holder and the Rev. Erold A. Lotridge. Burial was 
in Southampton Memorial Park, Franklin.

   Pallbearers were Leland Turner, Charlie Lassiter, Robert Hall, Kelly Cole, 
Wilson Askew, Ralph Asbell, E.O. Willoughby Jr., and Ray Buck.

   Ritter, 56, died Tuesday at 10:35 a.m., in Norfolk General Hospital.

   A native of Southampton County, he was the husband of Mrs. Mary L. Bradshaw 
Ritter and a son of the late George W. Ritter and Mrs. Rosa E. Lewis [Ritter].

   He was a maintenance mechanic for Lipton Tea Co., Suffolk. He recently moved 
to Zuni from Suffolk where he lived many years.

   He was a deacon of Wilroy Baptist Church and teacher of its Nine-Year Boys 
Class.

   Besides his widow, surviving are seven sisters, Mrs. Mattie Beaton of 
Gloucester Point, Mrs. Pearl R. Johnson, Handsom, Mrs. Emmett R. Johnson of 
Courtland, Mrs. Iner R. Tuttle of Williamsburg, Mrs. W.C. Wilbur of Norfolk, 
Mrs. Paul Cutchins, Chuckatuck; and Mrs. Elma R. Frankle, St. Petersburg, Fla.; 
and three brothers, George H. Ritter of Petersburg, Gurley W. Ritter, and 
Howard Ritter of Zuni.


Joseph Martin RITTER, of Zuni, formerly of Suffolk, 
maintenance mechanic for Lipton Tea Co., Suffolk, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 8 Sep 1970, Norfolk, age 56, 
interred in Southampton Memorial Park (Christus I, Plot 54*), 10 Sep 1970, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Sep. 17, 1970 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS}  Cemetery Project, 
   Southampton Memorial Park list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/somempk.txt 

Joseph was the son of George Washington RITTER (1856-1937) and 
   his third wife Wilsey Catherine (LOWE).  Records of all three of his 
   marriages are appended to his obit ("Tidewater News," Oct. 15, 1937, p. 7), 
   posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/r360g1ob.txt 


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