Sussex-Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Slade, Robert J. Sr., 1967 

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ROBERT JAMES SLADE, SR. 

  DENDRON - Robert James Slade Sr., 74, of Dendron, died Thursday in a Suffolk 
hospital after a short illness.

  A lifelong resident of Surry County, he was a retired sawmill operator and 
carpenter.  He was a member of Union Christian Church and a veteran of World 
War I.

  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Edna Whitmore Slade; two sons, R.J. Slade 
Jr. of Dendron and Kenneth J. Slade of Wakefield; two daughters, Mrs. Gordon 
C. Price of Elberon and Mrs. Charles S. Pitts of Goochland, and a brother, 
Carrie C. Slade of Dendron.

  Funeral services will be conducted at 5 p.m. Saturday in Purviance Funeral 
Chapel, Wakefield. Dr. R.E. Brittle, pastor of Hunterdale Christian Church, 
and the Rev. H.E. Crutchfield, a retired Christian minister, will officiate. 
Burial will be in Hillcrest Memorial Park, Wakefield.


Robert James SLADE, Sr., of Dendron, retired sawmill operator & carpenter, 
WW-I veteran, 
b. 12 Nov 1892, Surry Co., d. 13 Jul 1967, Suffolk, 
interred in Hillcrest Memorial Park*, Wakefield, 15 Jul 1967, 
marked in Wakefield Cemetery**, 
"The Daily Press" (Newport News, VA), July 14, 1967, p. 10 

*Defunct, most interments have been moved elsewhere. 
   (R.W. Baker & Co. Funeral Home) 

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

His mother, "Mollie" Mary Ida (JAMES) SLADE, is buried in Union Christian 
   Church Cemetery.  His father, Confederate veteran Peter Ruffin SLADE, was 
   buried elsewhere in Surry Co. 

His widow's obit ("Daily Press," Dec. 1, 1978) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/s430e1ob.txt 


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