Sussex-Surry-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Hamlin, Ruth H. Barrett, 1987 

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RUTH HOPE BARRETT HAMLIN 

  VIRGINIA BEACH - Mrs. Ruth Barrett Hamlin, 71, former Surry resident, died 
Thursday in Norfolk.

  She was born in Southampton County.  She was a former member of Surry United 
Methodist Church.

  She was a hostess at the Rolfe Warren House for the Association for the 
Preservation of Virginia Antiquities.

  Survivors include her husband, William Richard Hamlin of Petersburg; one 
daughter Ms. Wendolyn H. Hamlin of Virginia Beach; one son, William R. Hamlin, 
Jr. of New York City, N.Y.; four sisters, Mrs. Dorothy B. Owen of Jarratt, 
Mrs. Claudine B. Collier of California, Md., Miss Catherine Barrett of 
Arlington and Mrs. Josie B. West of Richmond; and two brothers, Gordon Barrett 
of Alexandria and Philip Barrett, Jr. of Winston-Salem, N.C.

  A funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday at Purviance Funeral Home 
Chapel, Wakefield, by the Rev. Lee E. Chattin.  Burial will be in the 
Wakefield Cemetery.


Ruth Hope (BARRETT; Mrs. William R.) HAMLIN, Rolfe Warren House hostess, 
b. 4 Oct 1916, Southampton Co., d. 26 Nov 1987, Norfolk, 
interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 29 Nov 1987, 
"The Daily Press" (Newport News, VA), Nov. 9, 1987, p. 22 

*Her parents, Phillip H. & Lillie B. (ROLLINGS) BARRETT, 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 

D.Cert. 87-040558 mis-spells her mother's maiden name Rawlins." 


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