Sussex-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Horton, Robie F. Jr., 1995 

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ROBIE HORTON 

  WAVERLY - Robie Horton, age 85, died Saturday, March 25, 1995, at the 
Waverly Health Care Center.  He was preceded in death by his wife, Edith 
Austin Horton.

  Born in Nansemond County, he was the owner and operator of Horton’s 
Furniture Store in Wakefield and the first manager of the Waverly A&P 
Grocery Store.  He was a member of the Waverly Baptist Church, the Waverly 
Baptist Church, the Waverly Ruritan Club, the Waverly Hunt Club and charter 
member of the Waverly Jaycee’s.  From 1970 to 1976, he served on the Waverly 
Town Council and was a past master of the Waverly Masonic Lodge No. 246.  He 
was also a member of the Order of the Eastern Star.  He was the son of the 
late Robert and Emma Rountree Horton and father of the late Nell Horton 
Epperson.

  He is survived by a brother, Surry Horton of Suffolk; three granddaughters, 
Anne Epperson Monahan of Wakefield, Mary Epperson Grin stead of Waverly, and 
Susan Epperson Botkin of Claremont; two grandsons, Capt. R.H. Epperson of 
Lawrence, Dan., and James E. Epperson, III of Ivor; six great-grandchildren, 
several  nieces and nephews.

  A funeral service will be held in Purviance Funeral Chapel, Wakefield, at 
2:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 28, by Rev. Anthony George.  Burial will be in 
Wakefield Cemetery, Wakefield, Va.  The family will receive friends on Monday 
evening at the funeral home from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

  Memorial donations may be made to the Waverly Rescue Squad or to the Nell 
Epperson Nursery fund, Wakefield United Methodist Church, Wakefield, VA 23888.


"Robie" Robert Fletcher HORTON, Jr., Waverly businessman, former councilman, 
b. 6 Mar 1910, Whaleyville, Nansemond Co., d. 25 Mar 1995, Waverly, 
interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 28 Mar 1995, 
"The Daily Press" (Newport News, VA), Mar. 27, 1995, p. 12 

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

His parents are buried in the CARTER-HORTON family cemetery, 
   on Whaleyville Blvd., across from "Broken Wing Farm." 
   Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 2 (II-29), 
   another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol2.txt 


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