Gates County NcArchives Obituaries.....Powell, Beatrice Franklin 1967 ************************************************ 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 August 21, 2019, 7:21 pm THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 09-21-1967, P. 8 BEATRICE FRANKLIN POWELL CORAPEAKE, N.C. – A funeral service for Mrs. Beatrice Franklin Powell was conducted Monday at 3 p.m. in Parkers Methodist Church, Corapeake, N.C. by the Rev. Evander Parnell and the Rev. Robert D. Fridley. Burial was in Parkers Church Cemetery with Rountree & Hofler Funeral Home, Gatesville, N.C. in charge. Pallbearers were B.B. Franklin, William Franklin, Vernon Beamon, Blackwell Powell, Irving Perry, Samuel Lee Morgan, Stanwood Winslow and Richard Jones. Mrs. Powell, 84, died Sunday at 1 a.m. in a Norfolk hospital. A lifelong resident of Gates County, N.C., she was a member of Parkers Methodist Church and a charter member of its Woman’s Society of Christian Service. She was the widow of Willis Warren Powell Sr. and a daughter of the late Benjamin and Mrs. Martha Brinkley Franklin. Surviving are four sons, Ferrell F. Powell of Franklin; Benjamin E. Powell of Durham, N.C.; Willis W. Powell of Virginia Beach; and Curtis Powell of Corapeake, N.C.; two daughters Mrs. Margaret Brooks of Charlotte, N.C. and Mrs. Mildred Russell of Lexington, N.C.; a sister, Miss Erden Franklin of Franklin; 12 grandchildren and six great grandchildren. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/gates/obits/p/powell3790gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.8 Kb