Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Seeley, Amanda L., 2003 

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AMANDA LYNN SEELEY 

STUDENT DIES IN ROUTE 258 CRASH 

  ISLE OF WIGHT - A college student was killed in a two-car crash Friday on 
Route 258 when her vehicle slid into oncoming traffic curing a heavy downpour.

  Amanda Lynn Seeley, 19, of Wakefield was driving around a bend in the 
southbound lane of the highway, just south of Route 609, about 3:15 p.m. when 
she lost control of her four-door sedan, said Sgt. D.S. Carr, a spokesman for 
the Virginia State Police. 

  Investigators were reconstructing the crash late Friday.  Carr said he did 
not know whether the slick conditions contributed to the accident.

  "It was not a very sharp curve," Carr said.  "We don't know if rain was a 
factor. She was sliding."

  Seeley's car spun around sideways as it entered the northbound lane.  An 
oncoming minivan struck the passenger's side of Seeley's car, causing 
extensive damage.

  The speed limit on that section of the highway is 55 mph.

  Both cars ended up in a deep ditch off to the side of the northbound lane.

  Officials closed that side of the highway down to one lane for emergency 
vehicles.

   The four occupants of the minivan, a family from Maryland, were transported 
to Obici Hospital in Suffolk with non-life-threatening injuries, Carr said. 
No information on their conditions was available Friday. 

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AMANDA LYNN SEELEY 

  WAKEFIELD - Amanda Lynn Seeley, 19, passed away Friday, Aug. 8, 2003, in 
Isle of Wight county, Va.  Born April 16, 1984, in Petersburg, Va., she was 
the daughter of Wayne Autry Seeley and Kimberly Haywood Seeley of Wakefield. 
Amanda was Salutatorian of her senior class of 2002 of Tidewater Academy, and 
a rising sophomore at East Carolina University where she was a Chancellor's 
List Student.  She was a member of Wakefield United Methodist Church and loved 
singing in the choir with her many church friends. 

  Besides her parents, she is survived by her sister, Melissa Ann Seeley of 
Conway, S.C.; her maternal grandmother, Barbara Haywood of Ivor, Va.; and many 
loving relatives and friends.  Her maternal grandfather, Howard Haywood, and 
paternal grandparents, Ralph and Lucille Seeley, predeceased her. 

  Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday, Aug. 12, at the Wakefield 
United Methodist Church, Wakefield, with the Rev. G.C. Branton III 
officiating.  Interment will follow in the Wakefield Cemetery.  The family 
will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. on Monday evening at the church Social 
Hall.

  Memorial donations may be made to the Wakefield U.M.C. Memorial Fund, Wesley 
Foundation of East Carolina University, East Fifth St., Greenville, NC 27858, 
or Tidewater Academy, Wakefield.

  Purviance Funeral Home, Wakefield, has been entrusted with the arrangements. 


Amanda Lynn SEELEY, East Carolina University student, 
b. 16 Apr 1984, Petersburg, killed in collision 8 Aug 2003, Isle of Wight Co., 
interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 14 Jan 2019, 
"Daily Ress" (Newport News, VA), Aug. 9, 2003; 
donated obit, publication unknown 

*Her paternal grandparents 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 

Her maternal grandparents are buried in Olive Branch Cemetery, 
   Portsmouth.  (Find a Grave Mem. #36821416 &c.) 


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