Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Watson, Roma L. Cross, 1958 

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ROMA LEE CROSS WATSON 

MRS. ROMA C. WATSON 

   Funeral arrangements for Mrs. Roma Lee Cross Watson, 30, whose death 
occurred in Norfolk sometime Wednesday night, March 19, were conducted 
in the chapel of W.J.M. Holland & Sons at 3 o’clock Sunday afternoon by 
Rev. James B. Douglas, pastor of High Street Methodist Church. Rev. Ira 
D. Hudgins, pastor of the Franklin Baptist Church, and Rev. Donald J. 
Dunlap, assisted pastor.

   Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery, the pallbearers being Richard 
Drewry, J.J. Finley, Jr., Thomas Hill, J.R. Howerton, Harvey L. Pope, 
Dr. E.F. Reese, 3rd, T. Arthur Vaughan and Billy B. Williams.

   Mrs. Watson, who had been a patient in Leigh Memorial Hospital, 
Norfolk, where she was under treatment for a "mental depression," 
according to Norfolk police, left the hospital unnoticed and presumably 
fell or jumped into the Hague, a branch of which is directly in front 
of the hospital.  On Friday evening at 6 o’clock a passerby observed her 
body floating face down in the waters of the Hague about 300 feet west 
of the Botetourt bridge.

   A native of Gates, N.C., Mrs. Watson had resided in Franklin for the 
past 9˝ years.  She is survived by her husband, Robert Emmett Watson, 
and two daughters, Katherine Lee Watson and Patricia Cross Watson, all 
of Franklin; her parents, Charles V. and Mrs. Pattie Green Cross of 
Gates, N.C.; and a brother, Charles V. Cross, Jr., also of Gates.


Roma Lee (CROSS; Mrs. Robert E.) WATSON, of Franklin, 
Gates, NC native, suicide 19 Mar 1958, the Hague, Norfolk, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 3, Sect. B, Plot 6A*), Franklin, 
   23 Mar 1958, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 27, 1958, Sect. II, p. 2 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx3.txt 

Her husband is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk - Block Y, Lot 20/22. 


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