Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Berryman, Madison W., 1949 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ MADISON WILKINS BERRYMAN M.W. BERRYMAN, 50, PROMINENT SURRY COUNTY CITIZEN, DIES Madison Wilkins Berryman, 50, died unexpectedly Tuesday, November 20th at his home at Surry Courthouse. Mr. Berryman was a distributor for petroleum products in Surry and a member of the Surry County Board of Supervisors; a deacon in the Surry Baptist Church; a member of the Surry Ruritan Club; Jefferson Lodge No. 65, A.F. & A.M., and a partner in an oil company in Surry. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Bessie Stroud Berryman; a son, Leroy W. Berryman; his mother Mrs. Sarah V. Berryman; his grandmother, Mrs. Valerie King; two sisters, Mrs. N. Judson Pitman, of Surry, and Mrs. William McGeever of Washington, D.C., and three brothers, Gordon C. Berryman, Commissioner of Revenue of Surry County; Raymond M. Berryman, of Baltimore, and Garland H. Berryman, of Newport News. The funeral procession left the Bullock Funeral Home Thursday at 12:30 p.m. for services at Surry Baptist Church t 2 p.m. conducted by the Rev. J.A. Cales, former pastor, assisted by the Rev. R.J. Callis, Jr., pastor of Claremont Surry Methodist Circuit. Burial was in Oakwood Cemetery, Surry. Active pallbearers were Maynard W. Berryman, Gordon C. Berryman, Jr., George Earl Gaskin, Arthur L. New, Robert Garrison and John F. Matthews. Madison Wilkins BERRYMAN, oil distributor, county Supervisor, d. 20 Nov 1949, at home, Surry C.H., age 50, interred in Oakwood Cemetery, Surry, 22 Nov 1949, "The Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 32, No. 28, Nov. 30, 1949, p. 1, col. 3 Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Carolyn Keen (VAHistoricHouses@aol.com) & Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/b655m1ob.txt