Surry-Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Presson, Peggy Roach, 1963 

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PEGGY ROACH PRESSON 

TRAIN KILLS WOMAN, 31, IN SUSSEX 

  WAKEFIELD, July 8 - Mrs. Peggy Roach Presson, 31, of Rt. 1, Wakefield, was 
killed instantly Sunday night when the car she was driving was struck by a 
Norfolk & Western passenger train at a private Sussex County crossing and was 
carried a mile toward Ivor by the train, authorities reported.

  Her husband, Howard, was killed three years ago in a car and tractor 
accident about 1800 feet from where Mrs. Presson died.  Both sites are visible 
from the Presson residence, about a mile east of Wakefield.

  The fatality does not count in the traffic total and is listed as a 
miscellaneous death because it occurred on private property.

  Mrs. Presson was a sales clerk at a department store here.  She was a member 
of Rocky Hock Methodist Church.

  Surviving are her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Herman Roach; two brothers, 
Shannon and Frank Roach, all of Homeville.  A funeral service will be held at 
2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Purviance Funeral Home, with burial in Rocky Hock Church 
Cemetery, Surry County.


Peggy (ROACH; Mrs. Howard H. Jr.) PRESSON, sales clerk, 
b. 26 Nov 1931, Sussex Co., killed by train 7 Jul 1963, near Wakefield, 
interred in Rocky Hock Methodist Church Cemetery (Plot 78*), Surry Co., 
   9 Jul 1963, 
donated obit, publication unknown 

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

A photo of her gravestone is posted with Find a Grave Memorial #20637987 

D.Cert. #21571 (Wakefield #34) 

Her husband's obits ("Suffolk News-Herald," Nov. 11, 1959, p. 1, & donated) 
   are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/p625h4ob.txt 

Her parents are buried in Newville Cemetery, Newville, Sussex Co. 
   (Find a Grave Mem. #40638245 &c.)


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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/p625p2ob.txt