Brunswick County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bowen, F. Irene Tatum, 1951 

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Rites Held For Mrs. Irene Bowen 

  Funeral services for Mrs. Irene Bowen, who died at the home of her daughter, 
Mrs. N.T. Poarch, in Nansemond County Wednesday morning, were conducted 
Saturday at 2:30 o’clock at Philadelphia Methodist Church in Brunswick County 
by the Rev. Harry Mast assisted by the Rev. Thomas W. Fryer, of this city, and 
the Rev. Kelley, of Hopewell. 

  P.B. Holland, of Lawrenceville, sang "Sunrise" and "The Old Rugged Cross," 
accompanied by Mrs. Mae Hobgood, also of Lawrenceville. 

  The pall was of red roses, white carnations and Calla lilies.  Pall bearers 
were the following grandchildren: Osborne, Drew, and Doyle Phillips, Sydney 
Connelley, Ronald Watson, N.T. Poarch, Jr., Albert Tatum, and Jesse Langston. 
Friends of the family as honorary pall bearers. 

  Burial was in the church cemetery.


"Fannie" Frances Irene (TATUM; Mrs. Peter Young) BOWEN, 
b. 29 Oct 1869*, Brunswick Co., d. 7 Feb 1951, at daughter's home, Nansemond Co., 
interred in Philadelphia Methodist Church Cemetery*, 10 Feb 1951, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 29, No. 37, Feb. 13, 1951, p. 1, col. 8 

*Additional information: 

Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 4352 (Cypress #56) 

Her gravestone shows b. 1870.  (Find a Grave Mem. #19155137) 

Her widowed daughter Louise 2m. widower Ernest Franklin McCONNELL, but is 
   buried with her first husband, Norbert Tucker POARCH, Sr., in Holly Lawn 
   Cemetery, Suffolk.  Holly Lawn list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/hollyln.txt 


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