Surry-Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Presson, Peggy Roach, 1963 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ 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.) Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/p625p2ob.txt