Franklin – Mills Parker "Pete" Daughtrey, Sr., 84, widower of Annie Mae Turner Daughtrey, died August 11, 2009 at Sentara Leigh Memorial Hospital. He was born in Nansemond County, a son of the late Edwin Parker and Sadie Holland Daughtrey and was predeceased by two sisters, Nell Story and Faye Turner and one brother, Thomas E. Daughtrey. Pete was a retired Assistant Postmaster for the Franklin Post Office and was a former brakeman for the railroad as a young man. He was an Army Veteran of WWII and a retired First Sergeant for the Virginia National Guard. Pete was a fifty year Mason, a former President of the Carrsville Ruritan Club and was a member of Franklin Congregational Christian Church. He was an avid gardener who enjoyed sharing his vegetables with friends.
Left to cherish his memory is his daughter, Robin D. Collins and husband, Kevin, of Berryville; his son, Mills Parker Daughtrey, Jr.; granddaughter, Ashley Daughtrey, both of Suffolk; two sisters, Anne O'Brien, of Franklin and Gladys Atkins, of Midlothian; two brothers, Raymond Daughtrey, of Holland and Edwin Daughtrey, Jr., of Franklin, and a host of nieces and nephews.
The funeral will be conducted at 11 am Friday at Wright Funeral Home with the Rev. James H. Hyatt, Jr. officiating. Interment will follow in Poplar Spring Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 pm Thursday at Wright Funeral Home and suggests memorials be made to the Franklin Congregational Christian Church, 412 North High St., Franklin, Va. 23851.