Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Tawney, William L., 1967 

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WILLIAM LEWIS TAWNEY

   FRANKLIN - A funeral service for William Lewis Tawney was conducted Sunday 
at 2 p.m. in W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home by Dr. Ira D. Hudgins of 
Franklin Baptist Church.  Burial was in Southampton Memorial Park.

   Pallbearers were Richard Carter, Ecil Rader, Ralph Rich, Fred Rabil, Roy 
Marshall and Roy Livesay.

   Tawney, 54, died Thursday in Southampton Memorial Hospital after a long 
illness.

   A native of Newton, W.Va., he lived here 20 years.  He was the husband of 
Mrs. Geneva Hall Tawney and a son of the late George T. and Mrs. Emma 
Schoolcraft Tawney.

   He was a papermaker for Union Camp Corp. and a Baptist.

   Besides his widow, surviving are a son, Richard Lewis Tawney of Franklin; 
two daughters, Mrs. Sharon Fields of Morristown, Tenn., and Miss Shelia Kay 
Tawney of Franklin; three sisters, Mrs. Grace Jackson of Richwood, W. Va., 
Mrs. Gertrude Browning of Plymouth, N.C., and Mrs. Earl Miller of Pineville, 
W. Va.; and four grandchildren.


William Lewis TAWNEY, Union Camp papermaker, 
Newton, WV native, d. 7 Dec 1967, Franklin, age 54, 
interred in Southampton Memorial Park (Devotion I, Plot 70*), 10 Dec 1967, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 11, 1967, p. 3 

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


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