Southampton County-Portsmouth City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Spain, Richard B., 1955 

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RICHARD BUTLER SPAIN

   Portsmouth - Richard Butler Spain, 56, of 427 Cavalier Boulevard, Alexander 
Park, died at 12:15 yesterday in a local hospital after a long illness. The son 
of the late James Edward and Ella Jane Worrell Spain, he was a native of 
Newsoms. He had resided here for the past 15 years.

   A carman of the Seaboard Airline Railroad, he was a member of the Newsoms 
Methodist Church and the Brotherhood of Railroad Carmen.

   Mr. Spain is survived by a sister, Miss Myrtle Barham Spain and a brother, 
Oren L. Spain, both of Portsmouth; and a niece Mrs. Odell S. Pendleton, of 
Norfolk.

   The body was removed to the Snellings Funeral Home. Graveside services will 
be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Newsoms Cemetery.


Richard Butler SPAIN, of Portsmouth, Seaboard R.R. carman, 
Newsoms native, d. 8 Nov 1955, age 56, 
interred in Hollywood Cemetery*, Newsoms, 
donated obit, newspaper unknown 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Hollywood list (N-61): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/hollywd.txt 


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