Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Whitley, Affa M. Drake, 1949 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ AFFA MAE DRAKE WHITLEY Mrs. Affa Mae Drake Whitley, 74, died early Friday night, June 10, in the home of her daughter, Mrs. C.R. Dunn of Union, near Murfreesboro, N.C., death coming as the result of a heart attack. Mrs. Whitley’s home was in Boykins, but she had been visiting her daughter since February. She was the wife of the late J.B. Whitley of Newsoms, and the daughter of the late John and Mary Lelia Drake of this county. She was a member of Mt. Horeb Methodist Church near Newsoms. Surviving her are two daughters, Mrs. C.R. Bunn of Union, N.C., and Mrs. L.C. Powell of Suffolk; one son, F.B. Whitley of Norfolk; several grandchildren and great-grandchildren; five sisters, Mrs. W.R. Atkinson of Franklin, Miss Beulah Drake and Miss Helen Drake of Boykins, Mrs. M.E. Allbritton of Arcadia, Fla., and Mrs. Joe Hines of Petersburg. Funeral services for Mrs. were conducted Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock in the Holland Funeral Home, Franklin, by Rev. C.T. Topping, pastor of Oxford Methodist Church, Suffolk, assisted by Rev. R.D. Stephenson of Franklin, Rev. Graham S. Carlton of Petersburg, and Rev. John G. Truitt, D.D., of Suffolk. Burial was in the family cemetery near Delaware, with F.B. Whitley, Jr., L.C. Powell, Jr., Charles R. Dunn, Jr., James E. Whitley, W.R. Atkinson, Jr., and Gerald, Julian and Bill Woodward serving as pallbearers. Affa Mae (DRAKE; Mrs. Joseph B.) WHITLEY, of Boykins, Southampton Co. native, d. 10 Jun 1949, at daughter's home, Union, NC, age 74, interred in the WHITLEY family cemetery*, near Courtland, 12 Jun 1949, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 17, 1949, p. 13 *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 8 (VIII-35): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol8.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/w340a2ob.txt