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Browning
Preston Mercer Browning, 89, dean of Culpeper realtors, died Saturday, December 19, 1981 at Culpeper Memorial Hospital.
Funeral services were held Tuesday at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, Culpeper.
Mr. Browning was born in Rappahannock County, the son of Charles William and Anne Ford Botts Browning. He was engaged in the automotive business and in farming before founding Browning Real Estate Agency in 1940. He owned Browning Tractor and Equipment Company until its sale in 1966.
Mr. Browning attended school in Rappahannock County, in Charlottesville and Virginia Polytechnic Institute at Blacksburg. In June 1916 he served on the Mexican border with the Culpeper Minute Men (Co. B, 2nd Virginia Infantry, and later the 104th Supply Train); he entered service in World War I with the Culpeper Minute Men, which was absorbed into the 116th Infantry, 29th Division, and served as first lieutenant in France.
Mr. Browning was a member and former vestryman of St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, a member of the Piedmont Board of Realtors, the Culpeper Chamber of Commerce and a life member of the Friends of Historic Little Fork Church. His wife, the former Gertrude Elizabeth Stephenson, died in 1966. He is survived by a daughter. Mrs. Thomas H. Ripley of Buzzards Bay. Mass.; two sons, Charles William Browning of Culpeper and Preston Mercer Browning Jr. of Lovettsville; and nine grandchildren.
Carder
Mrs. Mary Susan Carder. 94, of Culpeper died Thursday. December 17, 1981 in Culpeper Memorial Hospital.
Funeral services were conducted Saturday at Clote Funeral Home Chapel by the Rev. William Lancaster. Burial was in Fairview Cemetery.
A Culpeper County native, Mrs. Carder was the daughter of the late Anthony A. and Mary Elizabeth Tanner Compton. She was the widow of the late Christopher Columbus Carder and the oldest member of Mt. Lebanon Baptist Church, Boston.
Survivors include her sister. Mrs. Charles Frizzell of Charlottesville and two brothers. Charles W. Compton and H. Newton Compton, both of Philadelphia. Pa.
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