Surry County-Newport News City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Berry, Joseph H., 1946 

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JOSEPH HUNTINGTON BERRY 

  Funeral services for Joseph Huntington Berry who died Friday, November 22nd 
in a Charlottesville hospital were conducted at 3 p.m. in the Ritchie Memorial 
Episcopal Church.  Rev. C.E. Stewart of Petersburg officiated.  Interment in 
local cemetery.*

  Born in Newport News March 9, 1908, the son of Helen Santmyer Berry and 
George Berry, many of his 38 years of life were spent at the home of his 
maternal grandparents here.

  His survivors are one sister, Miss Helen E. Berry of Washington; three 
aunts, the Misses Jesse and Haidee Santmyer of Claremont and Miss C.A. 
Santmyer of Dayton, Ohio; and one uncle Joseph Santmyer of Zenia, Ohio.

  Pallbearers were Alvis Harris; Chaucey Harrison, Richard Grotopherst; Bryon 
Savedge; Carl Dunlop; and Robert Lee Matthews.


Joseph Huntington BERRY, of Claremont, WW-II Naval commissary clerk, 
b. 9 Mar 1908, Newport News, d. 22 Nov 1946, Charlottesville, 
"The Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 29, No. 28, Dec. 4, 1946, p. 10, col. 4 

*Occupation &c. from D.Cert. #23878, which gives burial/cremation/removal: 
   Hopewell, 22 Nov 1946; sn/o George William Berry, b. East Yorkshire, 
   England, and Helen Santmyer, b. Cincinnati, Ohio. 

His parents m. 19 Oct 1904.  (Ancestry.com "Virginia Marriages") 

Joseph & sis Helen appear in the 1920 Census with maternal grandparents 
   Charles A. (b. MD; pa France, ma MD) & Helen M. "Santmayr" (b. OH; 
   parents, OH).  Charles was Town Treasurer of Claremont. 


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