Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Thorpe, Lee L., 1983 

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LEE LAFAYETTE THORPE 

   NEWSOMS - A funeral service for Lee Lafayette Thorpe, 90, was held at 
2 p.m. Saturday in Barnes United Methodist Church by the Revs. Arthur W. 
Green, Harry Bunch and Kenneth Williams.  McDowell Funeral Home has charge.

   Thorpe died Thursday in a hospital.

   A native of Southampton County, he was a member of the Southampton County 
Board of Supervisors from 1952 to 1956.  He had served as director of Meherrin 
Valley Bank, Tidewater Bank and Trust Co., and Virginia National Bank.

   Thorpe was director of Peanut Growers Cooperative from 1935 to 1955.  He 
was a member of the Virginia Peanut Growers Commission and the Peanut Growers 
Association.

   He was a member and trustee of Barnes United Methodist Church and its 
parsonage.  He was a charter member of Newsoms Ruritan Club and a past master 
and 63-year member of Newsoms Masonic Lodge 128.

   Thorpe was a farmer and was an Army veteran of World War I.

   Survivors include his wife, Reba Collier Thorpe; two daughters, Lynda Lee 
Updike of Newsoms; and Reba Faye Connell of Sanford, N.C.; a sister, Carrie T. 
Vick of Newsoms, and four grandchildren.


Lee Lafayette THORPE, farmer & businessman, former Southampton Co. Supervisor, 
Army veteran of WW-I, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 13 Jan 1983, Franklin, age 90, 
interred in Hollywood Cemetery*, Newsoms, 15 Jan 1983, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 17, 1983, p. 12 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Hollywood list (N-65): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/hollywd.txt 

His parents are buried in a THORPE family cemetery, near Barnes Church. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 1 (I-30): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol1.txt 

His in-laws are buried in La Crosse Cemetery, La Crosse, Mecklenburg Co. 
   (Find a Grave Mem. #184791261 & #184791269) 


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