Sussex-Surry County-Petersburg City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pursell, William H. III, 1990 

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WILLIAM HOLM PURSELL, III 

  PETERSBURG - William H. Pursell III, 65, died Thursday, Jan. 11, in the 
Medical College of Virginia Hospitals, Richmond.

  Mr. Pursell was a former resident of Wakefield and Dendron.  He retired 
in 1971 as owner and operator of Parkhill Service Market, Petersburg.  He 
was a U.S. Navy veteran of World War II and a 1945 graduate of The College 
of William and Mary, Williamsburg.

  Survivors include his wife, Gladys Franklin Pursell; and one son, William 
H. Pursell IV of Petersburg.

  A funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in Purviance Funeral Home, 
Wakefield by the Rev. Jack K. Hardy Jr.  Burial will be in Wakefield Cemetery.

  The family request expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions 
to The College of William and Mary. 


William Holm PURSELL, III, of formerly of Wakefield, Dendron, & Richmond, 
retired Petersburg grocer, former chemist, Navy veteran of WW-II, 
b. 8 Oct 1924, Richmond, d. 11 Jan 1990, Richmond, 
interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 13 Jan 1990, 
"The Daily Press" (Newport News, VA), Jan. 13, 1990, p. 20 

*His father & step-mother 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 

Find a Grave Mem. #127147973 

His widow's (donated, 1994) obit is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/p624g1ob.txt 


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