Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Poole, George R., 1972 

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GEORGE RUSSELL POOLE

   JARRATT - Funeral services for George Russell Poole were held Monday, 
February 7, 3 p.m. in the Concord United Methodist Church near Stoney Creek.

   Interment was in the church cemetery.

   The Rev. Eugene E. Jones, pastor of Concord and the Rev. Lloyd Halstrum, 
former pastor of Concord Church officiated. Owen Funeral Home was in charge.

   Poole, 74, died Saturday, February 5 in the Petersburg General Hospital. 
He was a son of the late Mary Ella and Joseph Henry Poole.  A member of the 
Concord United Methodist, he was a retired engineer with the Virginian 
Railroad.

   He is survived by three sisters, Mrs. S.E. Weeks, Mrs. W.A. Chappell of 
Jarratt and Mrs. C.E. Modlin of Petersburg; one brother, Lawton L. Poole of 
Sedley; one step-daughter, Mrs. Bertie W. Harrup of Stoney Creek; one step-
son, T. Milton Wooland of Richmond and four grandchildren and one great-
grandchild.

   Active pallbearers were Clinton Hollaway, Arthur Poole, R.S. Barnes, 
Raleigh Slayton, Dennis Barnes and Abner Anderson.


George Russell POOLE, retired Virginian R.R. engineer, 
d. 5 Feb 1972, Petersburg, age 74, 
interred in Concord United Methodist Church Cemetery*, near Stony Creek, 
   7 Feb 1972, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 10, 1972 

*His parents are also buried there. 

His brother Lawton buried in Rosemont Cemetery, Sedley. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Rosemont list (S-54): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/rosemont.txt 


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