Gates County NcArchives Obituaries.....Pierce, Margaret Hayes 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 February 9, 2023, 3:17 pm Suffolk News-Herald, Volume 39, Number 79, Mon., 3 April 1961, p. 3 MARGARET HAYES PIERCE Mrs. Pierce Rites Held at Bethlehem Funeral services for Mrs. Margaret Hayes Pierce, who died Friday, were conducted Sunday afternoon at the Hill Funeral Home by the Rev. R.E. Brittle, pastor of Bethlehem Christian Church. Burial was in Bethlehem Church Cemetery. Mr. Brittle read Tennyson's poem "Crossing the Bar." Mrs. Philip Johnson sang two hymns, "Have Thine Own Way Lord" and "The Old Rugged Cross," accompanied at the organ by Mrs. Claudia Jacobs. The casket was covered with a pall of pink and white carnations. Pallbearers were C.F. Savage, Harvey T. Speight, James P. Harris, J. Burgess Stephenson, E.T. Ellis, Warren D. Austin, Edward T. Johnson and Joseph Martin. NOTE: Born: Mintonville, Gates County, N.C. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/gates/obits/p/pierce2315nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/ncfiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb