Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bittle, Reuben A., 1971 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ REUBEN ALBERT BITTLE A funeral service for Reuben Albert Bittle, 80, of Rt. 1, Box 114, Franklin was held Tuesday at 3 p.m. in Beaver Dam Baptist Church by the Rev. Edwin Thornton. Burial was in Beaver Dam Cemetery. Pallbearers were Claude Hedgepeth, Willie Winborne, Jarvis Howell, James Blythe, Carson Daughtrey and L.J. Bittle. A native of Como, N.C., he had lived in this area for the past 46 years. He was a retired farmer. He was the husband of Mrs. Claire Wise Bittle and a son of Junie Albert and Mrs. Rosalee Worrell Bittle. He was a member of Beaver Dam Baptist Church, the Men’s Bible Class and a former deacon. Besides his wife he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Mildred Bittle Jones of Virginia Beach; two sisters, Mrs. Marie Neblett of Norfolk and Mrs. Margaret Gibson of Chesapeake; one brother, Junie Glynn Bittle of Chesapeake; two grandsons and four great grandchildren. Reuben Albert BITTLE, Como, Hertford Co., NC native, d. 8 Aug 1971, age 80, interred in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery (unmarked*), near Franklin, 10 Aug 1971, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 12, 1971, p. 6 *Beaver Dam list (BD-4), an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt Date of death from D.Cert. #71-022878; incorrect date (10 Aug 1971) given with Find a Grave Mem. #178205717 (Jan 2018). Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/b340r1ob.txt