Sussex-Southampton-Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Hargrave, Bernard V., 1968 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ BERNARD VICK HARGRAVE Funeral services for Bernard Vick Hargrave, 81, retired auditor for the Union Bag Corporation in Franklin who died at Southampton Memorial Hospital, July 7, were conducted at W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home, Tuesday, July 9. Burial was at the Wakefield Cemetery. Mr. Hargrave, son of Mr. George Moody Hargrave and Sarah Wilkerson Davis Carroll, was born and reared near Wakefield. Early in life he was employed by a banking firm in Suffolk and then by the Surry Lumber Company in Dendron as a general bookkeeper. He resided here for a number of years before his removal to Franklin, over thirty years ago. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Lillian Slade Hargrave; 3 daughters, Mrs. Alma Schiller of Goldsboro, N.C., Mrs. Margaret Worell [sic; Worrell] of Newsoms and Mrs. Otys Roe [sic; Otis Rae] Frankfort of Phoenix, Arizona; a brother, Garland M. Hargrave of Petersburg and a sister, Mrs. Harry L. Harris of Wakefield. ****************************************************************************** BERNARD VICK HARGRAVE FRANKLIN - A funeral service for Bernard Vick Hargrave was conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. in W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home by the Rev. R.E. Brittle of Hunterdale United Church of Christ. Burial was in Wakefield Cemetery. Pallbearers were Wallace Simmons, Shirley Culpepper, John M. Beale, Warren Councill, Joe King and Wesley Wills. Hargrave, 81, a retired auditor of Union Camp Corp., died in Southampton Memorial Hospital at noon Sunday. A native of Surry County, he was the husband of Mrs. Lillian Slade Hargrave and a son of George M. and Mrs. Sarah Davis Hargrave. He was a member of Franklin Congregational Christian Church. Besides his widow, surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Alma Schiller of Goldsboro, N.C., Mrs. Margaret H. Worrell of Newsoms, and Mrs. Otis Rae H. Frankford of Phoenix, Ariz., a brother, Garland M. Hargrave of Petersburg; a sister, Mrs. Harry L. Harris of Wakefield; six grandchildren; and three great- grandchildren. Bernard Vick HARGRAVE, of Franklin, retired Union Camp auditor, b. 31 May 1896, Surry Co., d. 7 Jul 1968, Franklin, interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 9 Jul 1968, W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home obit; "Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 11, 1968, p. 6 *His brother is 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 Their mother (1858-1922) is buried in Rocky Hock Methodist Church Cemetery. (Find a Grave Mem. #23403908) His widow's obit (Purviance Funeral Home, 1978) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/h626l4ob.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/h626b2ob.txt