Sussex-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Presson, Rosa J., 1967 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ ROSA JAMES PRESSON WAKEFIELD - A funeral service for Miss Rosa James Presson was conducted Thursday at 2:30 p.m. in Purviance Funeral Chapel by the Rev. H.E. Crutchfield and Dr. R.E. Brittle. Burial was in Wakefield Cemetery. Pallbearers were Wallace Brittle, C.L. Goodrich, Gordon Presson, T.A. Presson, J.E. Presson and J.T. Presson III. Miss Presson, 88, died Tuesday in a Newport News hospital after a long illness. A native of Southampton County, she was a daughter of James E. and Mrs. Rosa Hargrave Presson. She was a member of Burtons Grove Christian Church. She is survived by nieces and nephews. Rosa James PRESSON, b. 8 Sep 1878, Southampton Co., d. 25 Jul 1967, Newport News, interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 27 Jul 1967, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 31, 1967, p. 7 *His parents, J.T. Sr. & Ada Viola (FREEMAN) PRESSON, 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 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/p625r2ob.txt