Sussex-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Griffin, Hubert J., 1968 

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HUBERT JESSE GRIFFIN 

   WAKEFIELD - A funeral service for Hubert J. (Curly) Griffin was conducted 
Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. in Purviance Funeral Chapel, Wakefield, by the Rev. 
Edward B. Owen and the Rev. L.P. Bland.  Burial was in Wakefield Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were Herbert Carr, B.F. Ellis, Fenton Goodrich, Emmett Barrett, 
Charles Holt and Clifton Wade.

   Griffin, 50, died Monday in a Suffolk hospital.

   A native of Southampton County, he was a son of Charles W. and Mrs. Sadie 
Vincent Griffin.  He was a member of Wakefield Hunt Club.  He was a mechanic.

   He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Linda Holt Griffin; two daughters, Mrs. 
G.W. Turner and Mrs. C. Eddy Wake of Franklin; a son, David W. Griffin of 
Wakefield; two sisters, Mrs. Cleo Piland of Margarettsville, N.C.; and Mrs. 
Calvin Piland of Norfolk; and two grandchildren.


Hubert Jesse "Curly" GRIFFIN, mechanic, 
b. 9 Nov 1917, Southampton Co., d. 1 Apr 1968, Suffolk, 
interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 3 Apr 1968, 
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 4, 1968, p. 9 

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

Curly's father (1894 - 1933) is buried with his sister in Beechwood Cemetery, 
   Boykins - Annex 2, Plot 247.  SCHS Cemetery Project, Beechwood list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/beechwd.txt 

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," Apr. 28, 1933, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/g615c1ob.txt 

His widowed mother (1900 - 1962) 2m. Willis Franklin CARTER and 3m. Robert 
   Edward SMITH.  She is buried with her parents in Beechwood Cemetery - 
   Annex 1, Section G, Plot 1. 

Robert is buried in Cypress Chapel Christian Church Cemetery, Nansemond Co. 
   Cypress Chapel list, another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cypress.txt 


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