Hertford County NcArchives Obituaries.....Bess, Bennie Cecil 1959 ************************************************ 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 1, 2014, 4:25 pm THE TIDEWATER NEWS – 02-12-1959, SECT. II, P. 8 BENNIE CECIL BESS MURFREESBORO, N.C. – Bennie Cecil Bess, 72, died Saturday morning, Feb. 7, en route to Raiford Memorial Hospital. He was the husband of Mrs. Sallie Garriss Bess, and son of Alonza and Mrs. Clara Britt Bess of Northampton County. He was a native of Murfreesboro and an employee of the Riverside Mfg. Co. He was a member of the Meherrin Baptist Church. Besides his wife, surviving are five sons, Jesse Bess and Vernon Bess, both of Portsmouth, Va., Lonnie Bess of Suffolk, Va.; Russell Bess of Murfreesboro and Earl Bess of Franklin, Va.; one daughter, Mrs. Lessie B. Sawyer of Hickory; 11 grandchildren; four sisters, Mrs. J.K. Vann and Mrs. W.C. Stradley, both of Franklin; Mrs. Naomi Rhodes Mumford of Washington, and Mrs. R.E. Hoyt of San Jose, Calif. Funeral services were conducted at the Meherrin Baptist Church Monday at 2:30 p.m. by the Rev. Roland S. Pruitte, pastor of the Murfreesboro Baptist Church, and the Rev. Lonnie Sasser, pastor of the Conway Baptist Church. Burial was in the Bess cemetery on Highway 258. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/hertford/obits/b/bess2585ob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.poppet.org/ncfiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb