Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Drewry, Bessie P. Clark, 1985 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ BESSIE PARK CLARK DREWRY WAKEFIELD - Mrs. Bessie Clark Drewry, 84, of Wakefield, died Friday in Louise Obici Memorial Hospital, Suffolk. She was a lifelong resident of Wakefield. She was a teacher for the public schools in Sussex County. She was a member of the Wakefield United Methodist Church. Survivors include a son, Turner M. Drewry, Jr. of Wakefield; a grandchild; and three great-grandchildren. A funeral will be conducted at 2:30 Sunday in Purviance Funeral Home, Wakefield, by the Rev. E. Lee Chattin. Burial will follow in Wakefield Cemetery The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday in the funeral home. The family requests that expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions to the Ivor Rescue Squad or the Wakefield United Methodist Church Building Fund. Bessie Park (CLARK; Mrs. Turner M. Sr.) DREWRY, retired teacher, b. 13 Mar 1901, d. 13 Sep 1985, Suffolk, interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 15 Sep 1985, "The Daily Press" (Newport News, VA), Sep. 14, 1985, p. 28 *Wakefield list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/cemeteries/wakefd.txt Her gravestone shows CLARKE. (Find a Grave Mem. #127080846) Her parents, William Richard & [Annie] Dora (ELLIOTT) CLARK, & brother Claude Richard CLARKE, are buried in an adjacent plot. Her husband's obit ("Daily Press," Feb. 26, 1973, p. 5) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/d660t1ob.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/d660b2ob.txt