Sussex-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Boothe, Myrtle Williams, 1954 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ MYRTLE WILLIAMS BOOTHE MRS. MYRTLE BOOTHE BURIED AT WAKEFIELD Funeral services for Mrs. Myrtle Williams Boothe, 64, who died at her home near Wakefield on last Saturday were conducted on Monday of this week at the Purviance Funeral Chapel by the Rev. Julian S. Orrell and the Rev. James Kennan. Burial was in the Wakefield Cemetery. Miss Joyce Mattox rendered music for the funeral services. Mrs. Boothe is survived by her husband, B.F. Boothe; three daughters, Mrs. Bailey S. Ashby of Disputanta, Miss Eleanor Boothe of Wakefield, Mrs. L.T. Saunders, Jr., of Crozet; four sisters, Mrs. J.B. Stephenson of Wakefield, Mrs. Unity Rowe of Norfolk, Mrs. G.B. Briggs of Port Washington, N.Y., Mrs. V.A. Northcott of South Bend, Ind.; also two brothers, R.E. Williams of Victoria, A.A. Williams of Plainfield, N.J.; four grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews. Myrtle (WILLIAMS; Mrs. Burrell F.) BOOTHE, b. 31 Jan 1890, Dory, Southampton Co., d. 8 May 1954, at home, near Wakefield, interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 10 May 1954, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 13, 1954 *Wakefield list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/cemeteries/wakefd.txt Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Aug. 4, 1969, p. 3) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/b300b2ob.txt Her parents, Richard Jefferson & Leah Wren (STEPHENSON) WILLIAMS, are buried in a WILLIAMS family cemetery, "Twelve Oaks Farm," Wakefield Rd. SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 1 (I-55): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol1.txt 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/sussex/obits/b300m3ob.txt