Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Kitchen, Mary C. Brooks, 1939 

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Mrs. Mary Kitchen Dies At Wakefield 

  Mrs. Mary Brooks Kitchen, widow of Augustus E. Kitchen, age 80, died at her 
home in Wakefield, at 1:45 a. m. Saturday. 

  Mrs. Kitchen was one of the oldest and most active members of the Wakefield 
Methodist Church.  She is survived by three sons, W.W. Kitchen of Lexington; 
Julian V. Kitchen, of Suffolk, and Earling S. Kitchen of Wakefield; two 
sisters, Mrs. E.V. Holland of Wakefield, and Mrs. J.J. Faison of Waverly; five 
grandchildren. 

  Funeral services will be held at 3 p.m. tomorrow at the residence in 
Wakefield, to be conducted by the Rev. R.H. Humphries of Danville, former 
pastor of the Wakefield Methodist Church, assisted by the Rev. B.N. Hartness, 
pastor of Wakefield Methodist Church. 

  Burial will be in the Wakefield cemetery. 

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MARY BROOKS KITCHEN 

  WAKEFIELD - Nov. 20 - Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Brooks Kitchen, 80, 
who died early Saturday morning, were held from the home here yesterday at 
3 p.m.  Mrs. Kitchen was the widow of the late Augustus E. Kitchen.

  The Rev. Robert H. Humphrey, pastor of Sledd Memorial Methodist Church, 
Danville, was in charge of the service, and was assisted by the Rev. R.N. 
Hartness, pastor of Wakefield Methodist Church, and Dr. A.W.H. Jones, pastor 
of Wakefield Baptist Church.  Interment was in the Wakefield Cemetery.

  Mrs. Kitchen was the oldest member of Wakefield Methodist Church in years 
of membership.  She joined the Methodist Church sixty years ago, before 
Owen's Grove and Coker's Well churches were merged into Wakefield Methodist 
Church. 

  Mrs. Kitchen is survived by three sons, W. Willis Kitchen, of Lexington; 
Julian B. Kitchen, of Washington, D.C., and Earling S. Kitchen, of Wakefield; 
two sisters, Mrs. Alice Brooks Faison, of Waverly, and Mrs. E.V. Holland, of 
Wakefield; five grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews. 


Mary Catherine (BROOKS; Mrs. Augustus Everett) KITCHEN, 
b. 1859, PA, d. 18 Nov 1939, at home, Wakefield, 
interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 19 Nov 1939, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 17, No. 204, Sat., Nov. 18, 1939, p. 1; 
donated obit, publication unknown 

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

Birthplace &c. from D.Cert. 25656 (Wakefield #23) 


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