Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cowling, Aralease Munford, 1988 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ ARALEASE MUNFORD COWLING MRS. ARALEASE M. COWLING WAKEFIELD - Mrs. Aralease Munford Cowling, 80, died Saturday at John Randolph Nursing Home in Hopewell. She was born in Sussex County and was a member of Wakefield Baptist Church and its Women’s Missionary Union. Survivors include her husband, Harvey J. Cowling; three daughters, Mrs. James B. Adkins and Mrs. Keith G. Richardson, both of Wakefield, and Ms. Ann C. Hawkins of Piedmont, S.C.; three sisters, Mrs. Evelyn M. Martin of Virginia Beach, Mrs. Cora M. Luter of Ivor and Mrs. Frances M. Benton of Suffolk; ten grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. A funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Purviance Funeral Home, Wakefield, by the Rev. Parker Hooper. Burial will be in Wakefield Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home tonight from 7:30 to 8:30 and requests that expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions to the Wakefield Baptist Church. Aralease (MUNFORD: Mrs. Harvey J.) COWLING, b. 13 Sep 1904, Sussex Co., d. 28 Sep 1984, Hopewell, interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 1 Oct 1984, "The Daily Press" (Newport News, VA), Oct. 1, 1984, p. 3 *Her parents, John Irving Jr. & Ettie Maranda (GRANT) MUNFORD, are also buried there. 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 (Purviance Funeral Home, Nov. 1988) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/c452h2ob.txt Her father's obit ("Daily Press," Jan. 25, 1950, p. 12) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/m516j3ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/c452a2ob.txt