Suffolk City-Nansemond-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Odey, Rosker, 1978 

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Rosker Odey 

  Rosker Odey, 78, of Chuckatuck Station, died at 7 a.m. today in Louise Obici 
Memorial Hospital. 

  A native of Isle of Wight County, he was the widower of Lillian Crocker Odey 
and a son of the late Tom and Odelia Riddick Odey. 

  He is survived by five daughters, Mrs. James E. Bacus and Mrs. Arthur Joyner 
of Suffolk, Mrs. Randolph Carpenter of Windsor, Mrs. M.R. Dickerson of Glen 
Dale, Ariz., and Mrs. Ida Towers of Newport News; one son, Roscoe T. Odey of 
Chuckatuck Station; two sisters, Mrs. Pearl Sadler of Smithfield and Mrs. Ada 
White of Hopewell; one half-brother, Bob Odey of Windsor; seven grandchildren 
and 16 great-grandchildren. 

  A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday in the I.O. Hill Funeral 
Home by Rev. William M. Everhart.  Burial will be in Newman Cemetery.  The 
family will be in the home of Mrs. Arthur Joyner, 184 Moore Farm Lane. 


Rosker ODEY, of Chuckatuck, retired from Lone Star Cement, 
b. 1 Sep 1899, Isle of Wight Co., d. 10 Jan 1978, Suffolk, 
interred in Newman Memorial Cemetery*, Oakland Christian Church, Chuckatuck, 
   12 Jan 1978, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 56, No. 9, Tues., Jan. 10, 1978, p. 2 

*Additional information: 

Photos of his gravestone - added by SweetGoldfish - are posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #157343440. 

D.Cert. 78-001171 gives buried Oakland Numan Cemetery, Suffolk. 

His father (1855 - 1920) 2m. Lizzie A. HOLLAND, 21 Jun 1906, in IoW.Co. 
   They are buried in Woodland Methodist Church Cemetery, apparently unmarked; 
   not on IWCHS GSSTF report #24. 


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