Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Scarborough, Dora J. Wasdon, 1974 

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DORA J. WASDON SCARBOROUGH 

  Funeral services for Mrs. Dora Wasdon Scarborough, 88, of Franklin, was held 
Tuesday, Jan. 29 at 3 p.m. in W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home, Franklin, by 
the Rev. Ira D. Hudgins.

  Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery.

  Pallbearers were Kenneth Gelhaus, J.J. Finley,Francis Clark, G. Hinson Park, 
Hap Purnell and Jack Holland.

  A native of Wilson, N.C., she was a daughter of Jonathan and Mrs. Marguerite 
Mayo Wasdon.  Part of her childhood was spent in the North Carolina Baptist 
Orphanage.

  She was a member of Franklin Baptist Church, and  in former years, had been 
active in its women's and youth organizations.  She had attended Chowan 
College and had been a member of the Franklin Music Study Club.

  She resided many years on Clay St. until ill health required her to enter a 
nursing home in Richmond.

  She was the widow of Paul Scarborough, former editor and publisher of the 
Tidewater News.  Scarborough, who died in 1950 was a former postmaster of 
Franklin and a former member of the Virginia House of Delegates from 
Southampton County.

  Surviving is one son, Charles W. Scarborough, a copy editor and music critic 
for the Richmond News Leader; seven grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.


Dora J. (WASDON; Mrs. H. Paul Sr.) SCARBOROUGH, of Franklin, 
Wilson, NC native, d. 28 Jan 1974, Newport News, age 88, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 135B*), Franklin, 
   29 Jan 1974, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 31, 1974, p. 4A 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Sep. 29, 1950, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/s261p2ob.txt 


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