Surry-James City County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pond, Margaret Thorpe, 2003 

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MARGARET THORPE POND 

  Margaret Thorpe Pond, 88, a resident of Surry County for over 50 years, died 
Saturday, Feb. 8, 2003.  She was born in Williamsburg in 1914 and was the 
daughter of the late Ara Hitchens and Oscar Thorpe and the widow of Robert M. 
Pond, Sr.

  Mrs. Pond was educated in the public schools of Williamsburg and an alumnus 
of The College of William and Mary from which she received an A.B. Degree. 
She was a member of Kappa Delta Pi Fraternity.  Mrs. Pond was a life member of 
the Virginia Retired Teachers Association.  She retired having taught in 
Charles City County, Surry County, Wakefield and the City of Hopewell.  Mrs. 
Pond was a member of Rocky Hock United Methodist Church where she taught 
church school and directed the church choir for many years.

  She was a strong supporter and past president of the United Methodist Women. 
Mrs. Pond was a member of the Association for the Preservation of Virginia 
Antiquities and the Surry Historical Society.

  Mrs. Pond is survived by one son, Robert Moyler Pond, Jr. and wife, Brenda 
Bevard Pond, of Surry County; one daughter, Dianne Pond Coggin and husband, 
George Thomas Coggin of Virginia Beach; eight grandchildren, Elizabeth Rebecca 
Pond, Bonnie Carolyn Witte and husband, Jerry Edward Moyler Pond, Alison Rule 
Simmons and husband, Bill, Toni Rule Goad and husband, Kenneth, Howard Russell 
Rule and wife, Mary, Gretchen Rule McMath and husband, Randy, and Robert 
Charles Rule, as well as eight great-grandchildren and many nieces and nephews.


Margaret (THORPE; Mrs. Robert Moyler Sr.) POND, of Surry Co., retired teacher, 
b. 23 Jun 1914, Williamsburg, d. 8 Feb 2003, 
interred in Rocky Hock Methodist Church Cemetery*, 
"Sussex-Surry Dispatch," Feb. 12, 2003 

*Find a Grave Mem. #136980953. 

Her husband's obit (Purviance Funeral Home, 1992) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/p530r3ob.txt 

Her parents are buried in Cedar Grove Cemetery, Williamsburg. 
   (Find a Grave Mem. #85236410 &c.) 


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