Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Tucker, David C., 1971 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ DAVID CHARLIE TUCKER NEWSOMS - A funeral service for David Charlie Tucker, 53, of Newsoms, was held Friday at 3:30 p.m. in W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home by the Rev. Harry Bunch. Burial was in Newsoms Cemetery. Pallbearers were E. Beale Carter, Jr., Calvin Vick, J.C. Bunn, Jr., Marvin Cook, Fred Worrell, Charles Bunn, Ben Ivey and J.L. Porter. A native of Southampton county, he was the husband of Mrs. Alese Bailey Tucker and a son of Mrs. Minnie Porter Tucker and the late Andrew Walter Tucker. He was a farmer. He was a member of Newsoms United Methodist Church. Besides his wife and mother, he is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Priscilla Leigh Griffith and Miss Sandra Melissa Tucker of Newsoms; two sons, Charles Douglas Tucker and Walter Steven Tucker of Newsoms; three sisters; Mrs. Lila Whitehead, Mrs. Lucy Harrington and Mrs. Gertrude Parker, all of Portsmouth; three brothers, Joseph S. (Tom) Tucker of Calif., Andrew W. (Dick) Tucker and Robert A. Tucker of Newsoms; and two grandchildren. David Charlie TUCKER, farmer, Southampton Co. native, d. 21 Sep 1971, Franklin, age 53, interred in Hollywood Cemetery*, Newsoms, 25 Sep 1952, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 3, 1952, p. 9 *His parents are also buried there. Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Hollywood list (N-65&66): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/hollywd.txt A photo of David is posted with Find a Grave Mem. #66122671. 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/t260d1ob.txt