Suffolk City-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Benton, Mary F., 1982 

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Miss Mary F. Benton 

  Miss Mary Frances Benton, 72, of Nansemond Convalescent Center, died Friday 
night in Louise Obici Hospital.  She was the daughter of the late Roscoe S. 
Benton, and Mrs. Rebecca Knight Benton. 

  She was a member of the First Baptist Church.  She worked for Kelly 
Furniture Company and a former rural carrier for the Suffolk News-Herald. 

  She is survived by two nieces, Mrs. Virginia Ann Gallagher, of Potomac, Md., 
Mrs. Patricia H. Powell of Salem Virginia; and one nephew, O. Bryan Hayes of 
Christiansburg. 

  Funeral services will be conducted Monday at 2 p.m. in the R.W. Baker Co. 
Funeral Home by Dr. Wayne W. Poplin.  Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. 


Mary Frances BENTON, retired "Suffolk News-Herald" rural carrier, 
b. 1 Jun 1909, Gates Co., NC, d. 22 Jan 1982, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery*, Suffolk, 25 Jan 1982, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 60, No. 20, Sun., Jan. 24, 1982, p. 2 

*Additional information: 

Her parents are also buried there.  Cedar Hill list, an extension 
   of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 

A photo of her gravestone - added by Steve Poole - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #100775032. 

Ancestry.com NC B.Index gives Frances Mary, citing Book Del., p. 24. 

D.Cert. 82-001030 gives b. Suffolk. 


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