Southampton County-Portsmouth City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Whitfield, Margaret C. McClenny, 1962 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ MARGARET COREEN McCLENNY WHITFIELD PORTSMOUTH - Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret Coreen Whitfield, 80, who died Sunday in a Portsmouth hospital after a short illness, were held Wednesday afternoon at 2 o'clock in the Holland Funeral Chapel. Mrs. Whitfield was a native of Southampton County but had lived in Portsmouth most of her life. She was the widow of Patrick Henry Whitfield and the daughter of John F. and Mrs. Elizabeth Gardner McClenny. Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Annie M. Peet of Portsmouth and Mrs. Elizabeth Booth of Tuscon, Ariz.; a son, James H. Whitfield of Portsmouth; two sisters, Mrs. O.F. Daughtry and Mrs. Emma Daughtry of Portsmouth; five grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Ira D. Hudgins, pastor of Franklin Baptist Church with burial in Poplar Spring Cemetery. Active pallbearers were I. H. Pierce, R.L. Kelly, Melvin Brinkley, Floyd Clark, Roy McGhee and Mr. Jamerson. Margaret Coreen (MCCLENNY; Mrs. Patrick H.) WHITFIELD, Southampton Co. native, d. 4 Mar 1962, Portsmouth, age 80, interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 52A*), Franklin, 7 Mar 1962, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 8, 1962, p. 3 *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Jan. 20, 1928, p. 7) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/w314h1ob.txt Her father's obit ("Tidewater News," Jan. 2, 1920, p. 6), with her parents' marriage record appended, is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/m245j1ob.txt 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/w314m1ob.txt