Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: MONDAY, February 18, 1991 TAG: 9102180030
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: A4 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: PENHOOK LENGTH: Short
PENHOOK - Mr. Benjamin Rucker Sutherland, age 92, died Saturday, February 16, in a local nursing home. He was preceded in death by a son, Benjamin Chapman Sutherland. He was a retired mail carrier and attended V.P.I. for four years, leaving to enter the Army in World War I. He was a member of the Penhook United Methodist Church where he served as Sunday School superintendent for over 30 years. He was also a former member of the Franklin County Planning Commission and was an aircraft pilot. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Belle Dudley Sutherland; one daughter, Mrs. John (Mary Frances) Harvell, Lynchburg; one son, David Anthony Sutherland, Penhook; one sister, Mrs. Maude Hudson, Salem; two grandchildren, Ann Maddox, Elon, Va.; John Benjamin Harvell, Lynchburg; four great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday in the Penhook United Methodist Church with the Rev. Edward P. McClain officiating. Interment will follow in Northfield Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the church from 12:00 noon Tuesday until service time. Arrangements by Lynch Funeral Home, Rocky Mount.
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