Mrs. Louise Gwyn Leckey, 36, wife of Daniel R. Leckey, of Wheaton, Md., died unexpectedly Thursday, March 15, in a Washington, D. C., hospital. A former resident of Gloucester County, she was the daughter of Samuel Gwyn, of Naxera, and the late Mrs. Gwyn.
Besides her husband and father, she is survived by two sons, Stephen and Douglas Leckey, of Whaton, Md.; two sisters, Mrs. Thomas Dame of Naxera and Mrs. George Gunn, of Ellerson; nine brothers, Jesse, Tabb, Saint, Bernard, Patrick, Fay, all of Gloucester, Boyd Gwyn with the U. S. Air Force, Statesman Gwyn of West Point, and John Gwyn, of Washington, D. C.
A funeral service was held at Severn Presbyterian Church, Naxera, at 2:30 p.m. March 18, with the Rev. B. T. Clarke, pastor of Bellamy Methodist Church, officiating, assisted by David Moylan, a senior ministerial student at the Union Theological Seminary, Richmond. Active pallbearers were Harold Gwyn, John Soles, Hurtell Robins, Ray Marshall, Nelson Robins and Walter Deal. The Women of the Church served as honorary pallbearers. Interment was in the church cemetery.
source: Gloucester-Mathews Gazette-Journal,
Thurs, 29 March 1956, p5, c5-6
Mrs. Louise Gwyn Leckey, 36, wife of Daniel R. Leckey, of Wheaton, Md., died unexpectedly Thursday, March 15, in a Washington, D. C., hospital. A former resident of Gloucester County, she was the daughter of Samuel Gwyn, of Naxera, and the late Mrs. Gwyn.
Besides her husband and father, she is survived by two sons, Stephen and Douglas Leckey, of Whaton, Md.; two sisters, Mrs. Thomas Dame of Naxera and Mrs. George Gunn, of Ellerson; nine brothers, Jesse, Tabb, Saint, Bernard, Patrick, Fay, all of Gloucester, Boyd Gwyn with the U. S. Air Force, Statesman Gwyn of West Point, and John Gwyn, of Washington, D. C.
A funeral service was held at Severn Presbyterian Church, Naxera, at 2:30 p.m. March 18, with the Rev. B. T. Clarke, pastor of Bellamy Methodist Church, officiating, assisted by David Moylan, a senior ministerial student at the Union Theological Seminary, Richmond. Active pallbearers were Harold Gwyn, John Soles, Hurtell Robins, Ray Marshall, Nelson Robins and Walter Deal. The Women of the Church served as honorary pallbearers. Interment was in the church cemetery.
source: Gloucester-Mathews Gazette-Journal,
Thurs, 29 March 1956, p5, c5-6
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Tabb Samuel Gwyn
1914–1988
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Jesse Elmo Gwyn
1915–1997
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Saint George Gwyn Sr
1917–1973
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Patrick Fay Gwyn
1921–2003
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Helen Franklin Gwyn Gunn
1923–2008
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John Marrill Gwynn
1926–2015
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Ernest Statesman Gwyn
1928–1987
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Elsie Gwyn Dame
1930–2024
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Joseph Dimmock Gwyn
1932–2006
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Boyd White Gwyn
1935–2004
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Floyd Deal Gwyn
1935–1938
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Bernard Lee Gwyn
1937–2013
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