Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Stradley, William C., 1965 

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WILLIAM CHARLES STRADLEY

   William Charles Stradley, 62, drowned Wednesday afternoon in the Nottoway 
River while fishing.  He was the husband of Mrs. Blanche Bess Stradley and a 
son of William and Mrs. Mary Stradley.

   He worked for Union Bag-Camp Mfg. Co.’s Paper Division.  A native of 
Delaware, he moved here in 1941.  He was a member of High Street Methodist 
Church.

   Besides his widow, surviving are three sons, Charles N. Stradley of 
Scotland Neck, N.C., and Ralph T. Stradley and Robert F. Stradley of Franklin; 
a daughter, Mrs. Clara S. Worrell of Holland; two stepsons, William F. 
Henderson of Franklin and James Q. Henderson of Franklin; two stepdaughters, 
Mrs. Blanche L. Karns of Norfolk and Mrs. Edith L. Lovett of Newport, Ohio; a 
brother, Harry Stradley of Murfreesboro, N.C.; 22 grandchildren; and nine 
great-grandchildren.

   A funeral service was conducted Saturday at 2 p.m. in W.J.M. Holland & Sons 
Funeral Home by the Rev. Robert E. Fridley of High Street Methodist Church. 
Burial was in Southampton Memorial Park.

   Pallbearers were Raymond Bess, J.E. Rainey, C.J. Sykes, Julian R. Bess, 
William Stradley and Fred Rabil.


[William Charles STRADLEY, Union Bag-Camp employee, 
 DE native, drowned 20 Oct 1965, Nottoway River, age 62, 
 interred in Southampton Memorial Park (Christus II, Plot 94B), 23 Oct 1965, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 25, 1965, p. 2] 

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