Southampton County-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Whitley, Lena M. Whitley, 1954 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ LENA MAE WHITLEY WHITLEY Lena Mae Whitley, 69, wife of Willard K. Whitley, died in a Charlottesville hospital Monday, April 5, after several weeks' illness. She was the daughter of the late Mollie and Jesse Whitley, all of Southampton County. Her early life was spent around Sunbeam. She had been a resident of Norfolk 41 years. Besides her husband, she leaves one son, Irving K. Whitley and a grandson, Wayne Whitley; two sisters, Mrs. Bessie E. Bowls of Portsmouth and Mrs. Evie A. Jones of Norfolk; two nieces who spent much of their early life with her - Mrs. Mary Parker and Mrs. Antionett Whitman, both of Norfolk and several other nieces and nephews. Mrs. Whitley was a member of Temple Baptist Church, Norfolk. Funeral services were conducted at the Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home Wednesday at 1 p.m. by her pastor, the Rev. Willis E. Joiner. Pallbearers were her nephews - Virgil A. Whitley, Francis E. Whitley, Odell J. Bowls, C. Rossa Bowls, Ashby Edwards, and Hurley Edwards. Burial was in the family plot at Mt. Horeb Methodist Church cemetery, Southampton, where her parents and several brothers and sister are buried. Lena Mae (WHITLEY; Mrs. Willard K.) WHITLEY, 41-year Norfolk resident, Southampton Co. native, d. 5 Apr 1954, Charlottesville, age 69, interred in Mt. Horeb Methodist Church Cemetery (unmarked*), Sunbeam Rd., "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 16, 1954 *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 2 (II-17): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol2.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/w340l3ob.txt