Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Burton, Janet O., 1951 

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JANET OTIS BURTON 

MISS JANET BURTON 

  WAKEFIELD, VA., Aug. 26 - Miss Janet Otis Burton, 63, of Wakefield, died 
Sunday in a Petersburg hospital.  She is survived by two sisters, Miss Josie 
Burton, of Wakefield, and Mrs. Richard A. Plummer, of Petersburg.  A graveside 
service will be held at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in Wakefield Cemetery.

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JANET OTIS BURTON 

FUNERAL RITES HELD TUESDAY FOR MISS BURTON 

  A graveside funeral service for Miss Janet Otis Burton, 63, of Wakefield, 
who died Sunday in the Petersburg Hospital, was held Tuesday morning at 10:30 
a.m. in the Wakefield Cemetery.

  Rev. J.L. Blankenship, Jr., pastor of the Wakefield Methodist Church, 
conducted the services, assisted by Dr. John E. White and the Rev. Phillip Ray 
Hart of Richmond.

  Miss Burton, a life-long resident of Wakefield was the daughter of the late 
Charles Alva Burton and Lucy Churchill Strachan Burton of Wakefield.  She was 
a member of the Wakefield Methodist Church and had been associated with the 
Burton & Marshall Store in Wakefield for over twenty-five years.

  She is survived by two sisters, Miss Josie Burton of Wakefield and Mrs. 
Richard A. Plummer of Petersburg.

  Active pallbearers were W.A. Stephenson, Jr., Rossie E. Carroll, R.M. Cobb, 
Paul W. Roges, J. Robert Hatch, John E. Williams, J.H. Eure and Garland H. 
Burton of Dendron. 


Janet Otis BURTON, of Wakefield, 
b. 23 Jan 1888, Sussex Co., d. 26 Aug 1951, Petersburg, 
interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 28 Aug 1951, 
"Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," Aug. 27, 1951, p. 22; 
donated obit, publication unknown 

*Wakefield list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/cemeteries/wakefd.txt 

Find a Grave Mem. #127137714 

Her father Charles Alva BURTON (1860-1948) was buried in the home cemetery, 
   Sussex Co.  His wife, Lucy Churchill (STRACHAN) BURTON, died between 
   1900-10. 


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