THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, January 14, 1996 TAG: 9601140040
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B7 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: RICHMOND LENGTH: Short : 28 lines
Frances Harrison Drummond Batte, 85, a resident of Westham Green near Richmond, died Jan. 11, 1996, at her home.
Mrs. Batte was born in Norfolk to Joseph Foster and Lucinda Trezevant Carr Drummond. She made her debut at the Norfolk German in 1929. She taught Sunday school for many years and was a member of Grace and Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Richmond. She also served as the parish secretary of St. Mark's Church in Richmond. She worked for the City Commissioner in Norfolk and the Commissioner of Accounts in Richmond.
She is survived by her husband, Col. Robert Bolling Batte; two daughters, Lucinda Batte Russell of Halifax, Nova Scotia and Frances Batte Hardenbergh of Disputanta; a son, Robert Bolling Batte of Salisbury, N.C.; and two grandsons, William Edward Meuse III and Charles V. Hardenbergh.
Funeral services will be held at Christ Episcopal Church in Waverly at 11 a.m. Monday. Burial will be at Elmwood Cemetery in Norfolk at 3:30 p.m. Monday. Purviance Funeral Home, Wakefield, is handling the arrangements.
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