Sussex-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Drewry, Frances R. Devaney, 1955 

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FRANCES R. DEVANEY DREWRY 

  WAKEFIELD - Funeral services for Mrs. Frances Devaney Drewry, 86, will be 
held at 2 p.m. today at the Wakefield Methodist Church by the Rev. R.H. 
Humphrey, pastor of the church.  Mrs. Drewry was the daughter of James and 
Nannie Robertson Devaney of Southampton County.  She died suddenly from a 
heart attack at the home of her brother, C.L. Devaney of Norfolk.  Survivors 
are one son, Dr. W.L. Drewry of High Rolls, N.M.; two brothers, C.L. and J.W. 
Devaney, Norfolk; one sisters Mrs. Lelia Norris, and three grandchildren, E.D. 
Stephenson of Valmora, N.M., Miss Elizabeth Stephenson, Wakefield and James A. 
Rives Jr. of Norfolk.


Frances R. (DEVANEY; Mrs. Samuel John) DREWRY, 
b. 21 Nov 1851, Southampton Co., d. 22 Jan 1938, Norfolk, 
interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 23 Jan 1938, 
"Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," Jan. 23, 1938, p. 20 

*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 DEVANY.  (Find a Grave Mem. #20592632) 

Her father, James Henry DEVANEY, is listed in the DEVANY-YATES family 
   cemetery, near Courtland.  SCHS Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 1 (I-42): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol1.txt 

The text fails to mention surviving grandson John Rives DUFF, buried in the 
   same plot.  His obit ("Miami News," May 21, 1975, p. 6) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/d100j2ob.txt 


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