Suffolk City-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gardner, Cephus L. Sr., 1983 

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CEPHUS LUKE GARDNER SR. 

   SUFFOLK - A funeral service for Cephus Luke Gardner Sr., 79, was held at 
2 p.m. Wednesday in South Quay Baptist Church by the Revs. Clyde Alderman 
and Donald Trump.  Burial was in Holly Lawn Cemetery, Suffolk, with Wright 
Funeral Home, Franklin, in charge.

   Gardner died Monday in a hospital.

   A lifelong resident of Nansemond County, he had retired from a job at 
St. Regis Paper Co. in Franklin.  He was a deacon of South Quay Baptist 
Church.

   Survivors include his wife, Mary Joyner Gardner; six daughters, Rachel G. 
Harrell of Suffolk, Mary G. Hawes of Alfred, N.Y., Ida G. Odom of Brookwood, 
Ala., Amy G. Tucker of Alexandria, Bernice G. Dilday of Ahoskie, N.C.; a son, 
Luke Gardner Jr. of Suffolk; 22 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.


Cephus Luke GARDNER, Sr., retired St. Regis machinist, 
lifelong resident of Nansemond Co., d. 10 Jan 1983, Suffolk, age 79, 
interred in Holly Lawn Cemetery*, Suffolk, 12 Jan 1983, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 13, 1983, p. 10A 

*Holly Lawn list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/hollyln.txt 


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