Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Parker, Hattie Turner, 1918 

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HATTIE TURNER PARKER

MRS. GEORGE H. PARKER 

   Mrs. Hattie Turner Parker, the beloved wife of Geo. H. Parker died at her 
home in High Street, Franklin, on Wednesday afternoon about 2"30 o'clock, in 
her thirty-first year after a brief illness from pleurisy. She was the daughter 
of the late M.W. Turner and Mrs. Fannie B. Turner of Courland, was educated at 
the Southern Female Seminary, Buena Vista, Va. and was a resident of Courtland 
until her marriage in 1908.

   It is no easy thing to write of the heartbreak of a friend - when George 
Parker brought his bride to Franklin a little less than ten years ago, the 
whole town wished them happiness. Both of the young people were well and 
favorably known here and in the county and the union seemed a particularly 
felicitous one. Sharing together the joys and sorrows attendant upon all normal 
lives, the friendships which they made were many as the natural complement of a 
happy and well-ordered home. To them were born a son and a daughter, Hinson, 
age seven, and Frances, age five, two unusually attractive and lovable 
children. To their friends and loved ones who see the home in sorrow and its 
hopes apparently blasted  by the hand of death there comes the inevitable Why? 
and a griping pain takes hold of human hearts that grope in a vain attempt to 
fathom an infinite purpose with a finite understanding.

   Mrs. Parker was a young woman of an exceptionally gracious personality and 
was essentially a home-maker, giving her life freely for her husband and the 
little ones.  She was a loyal and useful member of the Methodist Church and was 
faithful to its every obligation being an especially valued worker in the 
Sunday school and woman’s auxiliary organizations of the church.

   Besides husband and children, she is survived by her mother, Mrs. Fannie B. 
Turner of Courtland, one brother Mark W. Turner of Wilmington, N.C., and by a 
large circle of relatives in the county.

   The funeral services were conducted from High Street M.E. Church by Rev. 
R.M. Chandler at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. The building was crowded with 
friends of the deceased and of the family, townspeople, who were drawn into a 
common bond of sympathy with the grief-stricken ones in the loss of wife and 
mother, and the services were beautiful in simplicity, sincere in the 
sentiments expressed by the pastor and appealing to a sympathetic chord in 
every heart. The interment was made in Poplar Spring Cemetery, God's quiet acre 
where so many tender memories are kept verdant for our people, where so many 
sacred ties bind us and maintain our faith in the Life Eternal and as we looked 
upon the flowers covering the mound we were impressed not so much by their 
fragrant beauty as by the comforting promise which they gave:

"That He will give them back  -
Bright pure and beautiful -
We know He will but keep
Our own and His until we fall asleep"

   The active pallbearers were Geo. R. Hayes, Joe Byrum Gay, E.T. FitzGerald, 
Roger I. Beale, R.A. Pretlow, Ernest Barrett of Franklin, Sam Stubbs of Norfolk 
and W.J. Story of Courtland.

   The honorary pallbearers were General C. C. Vaughan, J.F. Bryant, J.C. 
Beale, W.H. Norfleet, R.C. Campbell, Sol W. Rawls, Dr. J. C. Rawls, A. L. 
Gardner, Jr., W.B. Simpson, W.T. Pace, P.R. Camp, J.A. Weede, L.T. Jones, Dr. 
W.E. Snipes, E. Frank Story, J. A. Pretlow, S.R. Nicholson, G.T. Stephenson, 
J.G. Vann, Dr. E. A. deBordenave, W.H. Lankford, J.A. Williams, B.L. Holt, J.V. 
Boone, G.M. Whitley, J.N. Bell, J.J. Bristow, Claude J. Edwards, Harry 
Steinhardt, Powell Eley, Dr. W.H. Arthur, T.L. Parker, J.E. Moyler, C.W. Gary, 
G.L.H. Johnson, J.W. Camp, W.C. Watson, E.L. Beale, Elliott L. Story, Paul 
Scarborough of Franklin; Dr. E.F. Reese, C.L. Grizzard of Courtland; Horace 
Gray, Charles Foster of Waverly; John King of Suffolk.


[Hattie (TURNER; Mrs. George H. Sr.) PARKER, d. Apr 1918, age 31, 
 interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery, Apr 1918, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), _ Apr 1918, p. 1] 

[Hattie is not found in the Poplar Spring Cemetery listings. 
  George H. Sr. is bd. with 2d wife Anna (TAYLOR), 
  and with George Hinson Jr. (Section 2 - Plots 7/8).] 

[file transcribed by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
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