Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Sykes, William B., 1971 

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WILLIAM BROWN SYKES

   A funeral service for William Brown Sykes was conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday 
in W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home by the Rev. W.O. Hudson, the Rev. Harry 
Bunch and the Rev. Daniel Ivey.  Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were John Sykes, L.F. Draper Jr., Donald Porter, James 
Lawrence, W. Tall Jones, Alden Gee, John Abbitt and Richard Lawrence.

   Sykes, 85, died Sunday at 2:25 a.m. in Louise Obici Hospital, Suffolk.

   He was a lifelong resident of Southampton County.  He was a retired 
messenger for Railway Express Co.

   He was a son of Dr. Joseph Henry Merrell and Mrs. Laura Summerell Sykes and 
the husband of the late Mrs. Josephine Lawrence Sykes.

   He was a member of Boykins United Methodist Church.

   Surviving are two nieces, Mrs. Eloise S. Brooks of Virginia Beach and Mrs. 
Inez S. Lassiter of Boykins; and two nephews, John David Sykes of Boykins and 
Joseph L. Sykes Jr. of Newsoms.


William Brown SYKES, retired messenger for Railway Express Co., 
lifelong resident of Southampton Co., d. 24 Jan 1971, Suffolk, age 85, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 32A*), Franklin, 
   26 Jan 1971, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 28, 1971, Section II, p. 2 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
    Poplar Spring list: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 


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