Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....West, M. Vera Johnson, 1978 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ MARY VERA JOHNSON WEST Mrs. Vera Johnson West, 81, a former resident of Ivor, died Saturday, December 24, 1978 at the Virginia Baptist Home in Newport News, where she had made her home for the past eight years. She was a member of Park View Baptist Church and the widow of Charles W. West, Sr., Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., Walter T. West, Fairfax, J. Russell West of Ivor, Marvin F. West, D.D.S., of Williamsburg; two daughters, Mrs. H.I. Schutte, Jr., of Richmond, Mrs. Elton Raiford of Ivor; four sisters, Mrs. B.L. Warren of Va. Beach, Mrs. David Andrew of Honolulu, Mrs. G.W. Leigh of Drewryville, Mrs. Frances Hatch of Wakefield; nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held Tuesday at 11 a.m. at the Purviance Funeral Chapel, Wakefield with burial in Poplar Spring Cemetery in Franklin. The family requests memorial donations to the Va. Baptist Home, Box 6010, Newport News, 23606. Mary Vera (JOHNSON; Mrs. Charles W. Sr.) WEST, formerly of Ivor, d. 24 Dec 1978, Newport News, age 81, interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 26A*), Franklin, 26 Dec 1978, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 25, 1978, p. 30 *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt Her husband's obit ("The Tidewater News," June 18, 1943, p. 4), with records of both of his marriages appended, is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/w230c3ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/w230v1ob.txt