Bertie County NcArchives Obituaries.....Chesson, Robert Lee 1961 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Bruce Saunders bs4403@verizon.net April 30, 2012, 2:54 pm Tidewater News ROBERT LEE CHESSON THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 10-24-1961, P. 6 Robert Lee Chesson, 67, a native of Bertie County, N.C., died in Portsmouth General Hospital Tuesday night after a long illness. He was the husband of Mrs. Ida Williams Chesson and a son of Gray and Mrs. Mollie Wentz Chesson of Bertie County. He formerly ran a general store in Plymouth. He was a member of Edenton Baptist Church. Surviving, besides his widow, are two sons, Rupert Warren Chesson of Franklin and Robert Smith Chesson of Baltimore; two daughters, Mrs. Annie Norman Babb of Portsmouth and Mrs. Marion Priscilla Bryant of Suffolk; four brothers, Jesse Chesson of Hertford, N.C., W.W. Chesson of Waverly, Wesley Chesson of Mackeys, N.C., and Percy Chesson of Vanceboro, N.C.; two sisters, Mrs. Helen Gray of Norfolk and Mrs. Mildred Gray of Edenton; and 13 grandchildren. Funeral services tentatively were be conducted at 3 p.m. Thursday at the graveside in Beaver Hill Cemetery, Edenton, N.C. The body was at the W.J.M. Holland Funeral Home, Franklin. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/bertie/obits/c/chesson2922gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb