Sussex-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cornwell, Josephine V. Pittman, 1969 

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JOSEPHINE PITTMAN CORNWELL 

   WAKEFIELD - A funeral service for Mrs. Josephine Pittman Cornwell was 
conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday in Purviance Funeral Chapel by the Rev. Robert L. 
Consolvo and Rev. L.P. Bland.  Burial was in Wakefield Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were S.A. Whitmore Sr., J.N. Barker, John Little, W.M. Cole, 
Daniel Gay and E.L. Harris.

   Mrs. Cornwell, 78, died in the Hermitage Home in Richmond Friday.

   A native of Southampton County, she was a daughter of John and Mrs. 
Josephine Cosby Pittman and the widow of Leroy J. Cornwell.

   She was a member of Wakefield Methodist Church.

   Surviving are two daughters, Mrs. J. Frederick Boykins of Newport News and 
Mrs. Ruby C. Drewry of Richmond; two sons, L.J. Cornwell Jr. of Tucson, Ariz., 
and John A. Cornwell of Neward, Del.; six grand-children; and a great grandson.


Josephine Virginia (PITTMAN; Mrs. Leroy Jason Sr.) CORNWELL, 
b. 24 Oct 1889, Southampton Co., d. 3 Oct 1969, Richmond, 
interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 9 Oct 1969, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 13, 1969, p. 8 

*Her mother is 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 ("Tidewater News," Feb. 20, 1953) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/c654l4ob.txt 

Her mother's obit ("Smithfield Times," Mar. 26, 1942, p. 6) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/p355j4ob.txt 

Her father is buried with his brothers & mother in a PITTMAN family cemetery, 
   Wakefield Rd.  SCHS Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 8 (VIII-56): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol8.txt 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
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