Sussex-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Rogers, Paul W., 1964 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ PAUL WELLINGTON ROGERS Paul Wellington Rogers, 46, died at his home Friday, Dec. 4 after a heart attack. He was a lifelong farmer of the Wakefield Community and a member of Rocky Hock Methodist Church. He was the son of Joshua W. and Lucy Rawlings Rogers. Surviving are his widow, Clara Bain Rogers; a daughter, Joyce Leigh Rogers; a son, Paul W. Rogers, Jr.; a sister, Mrs. Ralph E. Seeley, all of Wakefield; two nephews, two nieces, one grand-nephew and one grand-nieces. A funeral service was held at Purviance Funeral Chapel on Sunday, Dec. 6, at 4:00 p.m. with Rev. Edward B. Owen and Rev. L.P. Bland officiating. Burial was in Wakefield Cemetery. Pallbearers were, S.A. Brantley, R.J. Bailey, H.L. Goodrich, Jr., Lyle H. Pond, J.C. Epps, Sr., Jack Bailey, Ralph Bailey and Jack Pond. Paul Wellington ROGERS, life-long farmer, b. 3 Apr 1918, Wakefield, d. 4 Dec 1964, at home, Southampton Co., interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 6 Dec 1964, Purviance Funeral Home obit *His parents 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 His widow's obit ("Sussex-Surry Dispatch," Feb. 19, 2014, p. 5) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/r262c2ob.txt Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 35678 (So.Co. #97) A memorial to his parents, & his mother's (donated, 1949) obit is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/r262l3ob.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/r262p1ob.txt