Surry-Sussex-Prince Edward County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cobb, Fields W., 1965 

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FIELDS WHITE COBB 

  DENDRON - Funeral services for Fields White Cobb will be conducted Saturday 
at 11 a.m. in Purviance Funeral Home, Wakefield, by the Rev. H.E. Crutchfield. 
Burial will be in Hillcrest Memorial Park, Wakefield.  In lieu of flowers, 
the family suggests donations be made to the Boys Home at Elon College, N.C. 

  Mr. Cobb, 69, died in a Suffolk hospital Thursday morning after a long 
illness. 

  A native of Prince Edward County, he was a son of John Lee and Mrs. Dolly 
Williams Cobb.  He was a retired electrician. 

  He was a member of the Farmville Presbyterian Church and Blackwater 
Sportsman's Club. 

  He was a 32nd Degree Mason and a member of Khedive Shrine Temple, Norfolk. 

  He was an Army veteran of World War I with service in France. 

  Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Alice Presson Cobb; a son, Fields W. Cobb, Jr. 
of Lafayette, Calif.; a sister, Miss Hazel E. Cobb of Atlanta; and three 
grandchildren. 


Fields White COBB [Sr.], retired electrician, Army veteran of WW-I, 
b. 24 Sep 1895, Farmville, Prince Edward Co., d. 4 Feb 1965, Suffolk, 
interred in Hillcrest Memorial Park*, Wakefield, 6 Feb 1965, 
re-interred in Rocky Hock Methodist Church Cemetery (Plot 64**), Surry Co., 
"Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," Feb. 5, 1965, p. 2 

*Hillcrest Memorial Park is defunct, and most of those buried there have been 
   moved.  (R.W. Baker & Co. Funeral Home.) 

His widow was also buried there. 

**Rocky Hock list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/cemeteries/rockyhk.txt 

His in-laws, Luther Jackson & "Nannie" Nancy Lelia Virginia (HARGRAVE) 
   PRESSON, are buried in the same plot. 

Photos of his gravestones is posted with Find a Grave Memorial #137064377. 

His parents are buried in Westview Cemetery, Farmville, Prince Edward Co. 

His widow's (donated, 1965) obit is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/c100a11o.txt 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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