Sussex-Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Stephenson, Lillian W. James, 1962 

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LILLIAN WALLACE JAMES STEPHENSON 

MRS. STEPHENSON 

  Mrs. Lillian James Stephenson, 54, first president of the Wakefield Woman’s 
Club, died Sunday in a Tucson, Arizona hospital.  For about 10 years before 
her marriage in 1932, she was a teacher.  She was superintendent of the 
children’s department of the Wakefield Methodist Church Sunday school at one 
time.

  A daughter of Mrs. Lillian Noyes James of Hampton and the late Leonard 
Wallace James, she was a native of Surry County, a graduate of Virginia 
Intermont College and of Richmond Norman College.

  Survivors include her mother; a daughter, Mrs. George H. Stroud, Jr., of 
Suffolk; two brothers, Joseph N. James of Alexandria, and L. Eldon James of 
Hampton, and two granddaughters.

  A funeral service will be conducted Friday at 2:30 p.m. in Purviance Funeral 
Chapel by the Rev. L.P. Bland of the Wakefield Methodist Church and the Rev. 
D.M. Cotter of the Wakefield Baptist Church.  Burial will be in Wakefield 
Cemetery.  Those desiring may contribute to Wakefield Baptist Church in lieu 
of sending flowers.

  Pallbearers will be C.E. Holladay, J.N. Savedge, Charlie Jones, John Carson, 
E.L. Harris and R.M. Cobb.


Lillian Wallace (JAMES; Mrs. Walter Arrington Jr.) STEPHENSON, former teacher, 
b. 28 Jun 1907, Surry Co., d. 21 Apr 1962, Tucson, AZ, 
interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 26 Apr 1962, 
Purviance Funeral Home obit 

An obit appeared in "The Daily Press" Apr. 26, 1962. 

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

Her parents are buried in Spring Hill Christian Church Cemetery. 
   Find a Grave calls it Springhill Cemetery.  (Mem. #52762119 &c.) 


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