Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Saunders, Jesse D. Sr., 1949 

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Jesse D Saunders Dies in Windsor

Jesse Dashwood Saunders, Sr, 78, custodian of the Windsor High School for the 
past 27 years died at his Windsor home at 2:35 o'clock yesterday afternoon. 

Funeral services will be conducted at 3 pm in the West Baptist Church, Windsor 
by Rev B A Riddle, pastor, assisted by Rev Sidney Cobb. Interment will follow 
in Windsor Cemetery. 

The body is presently resting in the R W Baker Funeral Home in Suffolk and will 
be taken to the West Baptist Church tomorrow at noon to lie in state there 
until 3 pm.

The son of the late Stephen L & Eva Bishop Saunders, of Isle of Wight and 
Southampton Counties, the deceased was for 30 years a member of West Baptist 
Church and of its Mens Bible Class. 

He is survived by his wife, Mrs Mabel Robinson Saunders; four sons, J D 
Saunders, Jr of Windsor, M M Saunders of Windsor, J B Saunders of Windsor, and 
H L Saunders of Hopewell, Va.

Also four daughters, Mrs George Whitley of Windsor; Mrs J T Parham of Windsor; 
Mrs J Q Fowler of Franklin and Mrs Virginia S Gray of Roanoke; five 
grandchildren, three step-grandchildren; and 2 great grandchildren. 


[Jesse Dashwood SAUNDERS, Sr., d. 29 Oct 1949, age 78, 
 "The Suffolk News Herald" (Suffolk, VA), 30 Oct 1949] 

[file transcribed by Ann Marie Piland, 
 and re-formatted by File Manager.]