Southampton-Halifax County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Stortz, M. Blanche Pittman, 1963 

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BLANCHE STORTZ

Mrs. Blanche Stortz, 86, died Saturday.  Funeral 2:30 p.m. Monday Courtland 
Methodist Church, Courtland, burial there.  Survivors include a son, E.W. 
Stortz of Richmond.

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MARION BLANCHE PITTMAN STORTZ

   Mrs. Blanche Pittman Stortz, 86, died December 7 in South Boston Hospital, 
South Boston.

   She was a daughter of John and Josephine Pittman, who lived in the 
Courtland Community.  She was married in December, 1900, to Frederick W. 
Stortz.  They resided at Vicksville where he was a merchant and farmer until 
they moved to Crewe in 1923 where they remained until her husband’s death in 
1933.  From that date she made her home in South Boston.

   Funeral services were held at the Courtland Methodist Church Monday at 
2:30 p.m. by her pastor, Rev. Lewis Darst, assisted by Rev. W. Frank Kale and 
Rev. Byron Hallstead. "The Old Rugged Cross" was sung by Rev. James A. Coney. 
Burial was in Riverside Cemetery.

   Surviving her are two daughters, Mrs. E.W. Black Jr., of South Boston and 
Mrs. Russell W. Owen of Sedley; four sons, J.C. and R.R. Stortz of Richmond 
and L.M. Stortz of Philadelphia; a brother, Walter R. Pittman of Courtland; 
thirteen grandchildren and eighteen great-grandchildren.

   Pallbearers were her nephews and grandsons, Elmo Pittman, Frederick 
Pittman, Tommie Pittman, Bill Cash, Bobby Stortz, Freddie Black and Edwin 
Black, III.


Marion Blanche (PITTMAN; Mrs. Frederick W.) STORTZ, of South Boston, 
formerly of Vicksville & Crewe, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 7 Dec 1963, South Boston, age 86, 
interred in Riverside Cemetery (Section I, Plot 31*), Courtland, 
   9 Dec 1963, 
"The Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," Sun., Dec. 8, 1963, p. 49; 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 19, 1963, Sect. III, p. 4 

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


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