Southampton County-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Turbyfill, Willie L. Darden, 1941 

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WILLIE LENORA DARDEN DARDEN TURBYFILL

   Burial rites for Mrs. Willie Darden Turbyfill were held at the family 
plot in Poplar Spring Cemetery here yesterday afternoon at 5:30 o’clock, 
Mrs. Turbyfill dying at the Norfolk General Hospital Tuesday morning after 
an illness of a few weeks.  She was the daughter of the late Robert and 
Mrs. Jane Gardner Darden of the Sycamore community, and is survived by her 
husband William Louis Turbyfill of Norfolk; a son, Lloyd A. Darden of this 
town by her first marriage to J.W. Darden of Franklin who died many years 
ago; by two sisters, Mrs. G.E. Johnson of Suffolk and Miss Estelle Darden 
of Norfolk; by two brothers, Rochelle J. Darden of Roanoke and Robert Darden, 
Jr. of Knoxville, Tenn., besides a large friends.

   Mrs. Turbyfill was a useful and active member of the Franklin Baptist 
Church during her residence here, and maintained the same interest in 
Norfolk at Park Place Baptist Church, where she taught a class of women; 
was an officer in the Woman’s missionary organization and was a past chief 
of the Pythian Sisters Lodge No.3, Norfolk.  She is known and remembered in 
Franklin as an exemplary Christian character of many fine traits.

   Funeral services were held from Park Place Baptist Church yesterday after 
noon at 3:30 o’clock by her former pastor, Rev. R.D. Stephenson of Franklin 
in the absence of Dr. H.W. Tiffany pastor of Park Place Church, and the body 
was brought to Franklin for burial with services at the cemetery.  The 
pallbearers were: E.L. Pickler, John Anderson and Frank Stevens of Norfolk; 
Richmond H. Peters, Jr., J.P. King, Vernard P. Cotton, W.R. Atkinson, Hunter 
Darden and M.G. Councill of Franklin.


Willie Lenora (DARDEN DARDEN; Mrs. William L.) TURBYFILL, of Norfolk, 
Sycamore native, d. 12 Aug 1941, Norfolk, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 44A*), Franklin, 
   21 May 1941, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 23, 1941, p. 5 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

Willie's first husband Junius Willard Darden (1876-1913) is buried in the 
   same plot.  His obit ("Tidewater News," Sep. 12, 1913) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/d635j1ob.txt 

Junius Willard Darden, 27, s, Nansemond Co., Va., 
   s/o John Wilson and Margaret Jane Eley Darden, Farmer 
m. 02-04-1903 So.Co., Va. by Rev. J.E. Jones 
Willie Leona Darden, 19, s, So.Co., d/o Robert and Mary Jane Gardner Darden 
(Southampton Co. MB11:210; transcribed & annotated by Bruce Saunders: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/vitals/mb11pt.txt) 

Her mother's obit ("Tidewater News," June 28, 1940, p. 5) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/d635m5ob.txt 


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

file at: 
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