Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Beale, Raby R., 1957 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.org/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.org/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ RABY RANDOLPH BEALE Raby Randolph Beale, 60, farmer and merchant of the Black Creek community, died at his home on Monday morning, October 21. He was the husband of Mrs. Estelle Willis Beale and the son of the late Thomas Exum and Mrs. Stella Saunders Beale. He was a member of Black Creek Baptist Church. Besides his wife, He is survived by a son, Fenton O. Beale; a brother Leland Beale, Sr.; and two grandchildren, Rhonda and Ray Beale, all of the Black Creek community. Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. in the chapel of the W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home by Rev. Len B. Allen, pastor of Black Creek Baptist Church, Rev. G.C. Cruthchfield, pastor of Mt. Carmel Christian Church and Rev. W.B. Watson of the Columbia Baptist Church, Fluvanna County. Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery. Pallbearers were C.C. Edwards, M.H. Lowe, C.W. Bulls, L.E. Bradshaw, J.R. Tomlin, R.T. Barrett, A.T. Hatfield and S.C. Bristow. Honorary pallbearers were members of his Sunday School class and friends of the family. [Raby Randolph Beale, d. 21 Oct 1957, age 71, obituary, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), 24 Oct 1957] [file transcribed by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager.]