Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Lankford, Effie Wiggins, 1957 
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EFFIE WIGGINS LANKFORD

Mrs. Effie W. Lankford

Mrs. Effie Wiggins Lankford, 84, a former resident of Franklin died Monday, 
September 2, at 1:50 p.m. at her home, 820 Duke Street, Norfolk.

She was the widow of William H. Lankford, who for many years conducted a 
furniture business in Franklin, and the daughter of the late John Bowers and 
Mrs. Mary Sarah Parker Wiggins of Southampton County.

Mrs. Lankford was a native of the Franklin community and had made her home in 
Norfolk for five years.  She was a member of the Franklin Baptist Church.

Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. Mollie Norfleet of Portsmouth and Mrs. J. F. 
Kitterman of Norfolk; a brother, Jasper L. Wiggins of Edenton, N.C.; and a 
number of nieces and nephews.

Funeral services were conducted Wednesday at 3 p.m. in the chapel of the 
W. J. M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home by Rev. Ira D. Hudgins, pastor of the 
Franklin Baptist Church.  Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery.

Active pallbearers were Irving Lankford, S. W. Lankford, Jr., Jasper L. 
Norfleet, S. C. Branch, David Wiggins, Dr. Sidney Kitterman, John W. Wheeler, 
Col. Richard P. Wheeler and Clyde Eley.


[Effie (WIGGINS; Mrs. William H.) LANKFORD, d. 2 Sep 1957, age 84, obituary, 
 interred in Poplar Springs Cemetery, Franklin, 4 Sep 1957, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), obit dated 5 Sep 1957] 

[file transcribed by Carol Stevens, and re-formatted by File Manager.]