Southampton-Roanoke County-Richmond City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Saunders, Carolyn St. Clair, 2000 

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CAROLYN ST. CLAIR SAUNDERS 

  Carolyn St. Clair Saunders, 91, died Monday, May 29, 2000, at Lakewood Manor 
Baptist Home, Richmond, Va. 

  Born in Bonsack, Va., she was the daughter of the late James Scott St. Clair 
and Martha Kennedy St. Clair.  She was always a dedicated and active member of 
Ivor Baptist Church.  In 1981, she moved to Richmond where she joined 
Derbyshire Baptist Church.  She was a graduate of National Business College in 
Roanoke, Va. and during her lifetime she was very civic minded serving as a 
director of WMU of Blackwater Association; vice president of the Board of 
Trustees of the Walter Cecil Rawls Library and Museum established in 
Courtland, Va., in 1955; a president of Virginia Federated Woman's Club of the 
Southside District in Virginia; chairman of the Social Services Board, 
Southampton County, Va.; and served on many committees of the Lakewood Manor 
Baptist Home.  Mrs. Saunders was the widow of Homer Stuart Saunders Sr., 
formerly of Ivor, Va. 

  She is survived by her son, Homer Stuart Saunders Jr. and his wife, Peggy; 
grandson, H. Stuart Saunders III and wife, Kimberly; and granddaughter, Amy S. 
Steinbrink and husband, Scott, all of Georgia.  She was predeceased by three 
brothers and one sister. 

  Funeral services will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at Ivor Baptist Church, 
Ivor, Va., with the Rev. J. Lytle Buckingham and the Rev. Linwood Peterson 
officiating.  Burial will be in Ivor Cemetery.  The family will receive 
friends today from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at Purviance Funeral Home, Wakefield. 
Memorial donations may be made to Ivor Volunteer Rescue Squad or Ivor Baptist 
Church, Ivor, Va. 


Carolyn (ST. CLAIR; Mrs. Homer S. Sr.) SAUNDERS, of Richmond, formerly of Ivor, 
b. 3 Jan 1909, Bonsack, Roanoke Co., d. 29 May 2000, Richmond, 
interred in Ivor Cemetery*, 1 Jun 2000, 
"Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), May 31, 2000, p. B9 

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

Her husband had been Mayor of Ivor.  His obits ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," 
   Oct. 22, 1976, p. 83, & donated) are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/s536h1ob.txt 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/s536c4ob.txt