Sussex-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Brittle, Wallace L., 1968 

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WALLACE LEAR BRITTLE 

   WAKEFIELD - A funeral service for Wallace Lear Brittle was conducted Friday 
at 3 p.m. in Purviance Funeral Chapel, Wakefield, by the Rev. H.E. Crutchfield 
and the Rev. L.P. Bland.  Burial was in Wakefield Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were W.C. Seeley, Gene Singleton, Earl Holt, John Harris, Peter 
Guerrant, Willard Goodrich and Dennis Cox.

   Brittle, 50, died Wednesday in a Petersburg hospital after a long illness.

   A native of Southampton County, he was the husband of Mrs. Mildred Laine 
Brittle and a son of the late A. Samuel and Mrs. Pearl Indie Brittle.

   He was a member of Wakefield Congregational Christian Church.  He was 
shipping foreman for Columbian Peanut Co.

   Besides his widow, surviving are a son, Eugene D. Brittle, and two 
brothers, J. Samuel Brittle and R. Marshall Brittle, all of Wakefield; two 
sisters, Mrs. Clarice Kotz of Suffolk and Mrs. B. Paige Pulley of Ivor; two 
half-brothers, Clyde Brittle of Derby, Pa., and Joseph Brittle of Hampton; 
three half-sisters, Mrs. R.B. Murphy of Wakefield, Mrs. George Rogers of 
Suffolk and Mrs. Mae Hughes of Richmond.


Wallace Lear BRITTLE, Columbian Peanut shipping foreman, 
b. 16 Apr 1917, Southampton Co., d. 3 Jan 1968, Petersburg, 
interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 5 Jan 1968, 
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 8, 1968, p. 6 

*His widow 2m. widower Gordon C. PRICE, but she is buried with Wallace. 
   Wakefield list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/cemeteries/wakefd.txt 

Her obit ("Virginian-Pilot," Jan. 2, 2006, B5) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/p620m5ob.txt 

His mother is also buried in Wakefield Cemetery.  Her obit ("Daily Press," 
   (Newport News, VA), June 10, 1962, p. 63) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/b634p3ob.txt 

His father is buried with his first wife & parents, in a BRITTLE family 
   cemetery, on Boothe Rd., at Ivor Rd. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 1 (I-44): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol1.txt 


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