Sussex-Surry-Prince George County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Hobson, Lydia S. Faison, 1956 

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LYDIA SALOME FAISON HOBSON 

  Mrs. Lydia Faison Hobson, 78, of 1105 Burnside, Hopewell, died at 1:30 p.m. 
yesterday at Mary Immaculate Hospital after a short illness.

  Mrs. Hobson, who was a native of Dendron, had been a resident of Hopewell 
for 25 years.  She had made her home in Newport News with a daughter, Mrs. 
Helen H. Cox, for the past several years.

  Mrs. Hobson was the widow of Jodie S. Hobson.

  She was a member of the Congregational Christian Church, Dendron, and Adah 
Chapter 7, Order of Eastern Star, Hopewell.

  She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Cox, Newport News, and Mrs. Wilson 
McKerrow, Forest Hills, N.Y.; two grandchildren, Gayle and James McKerrow, 
Forest Hills, one brother, Edgar G. Faison, Waverly.

  Funeral services will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Peninsula Funeral 
Home, with Rev. C.T. Topping, pastor of Chestnut Avenue Methodist Church, 
officiating.  Graveside services will be held Sunday at 3:30 p.m. at the 
Wakefield Cemetery, Wakefield.  The family requests that flowers be omitted 
and that memoriam be sent to the Congregational Christian Church, Dendron. 
The family will be at the home of the daughter, Mrs. Helen Cox, 305 Hickory 
Ave., Newport News.


Lydia Salome (FAISON; Mrs. Jodie S.) HOBSON, formerly of Hopewell, 
b. 12 Feb 1878, Dendron, d. 28 Dec 1956, Newport News, 
interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 30 Dec 1956, 
"The Daily Press" (Newport News, VA), Dec. 29, 1956, p. 7 

*His parents 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 


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