Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bowden, M. Elizabeth Saunders, 1958 

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MARY ELIZABETH SAUNDERS BOWDEN 

   ZUNI - Mrs. Mary Elizabeth (Lizzie) Saunders Bowden, 68, well-known 
resident of the Zuni community, Isle of Wight County, and wife of James 
Henry Bowden, died Friday at 5 p.m. at her home after an illness of many 
months.

   She was a daughter of Allie and Mrs. Alice Duke Saunders of Isle of 
Wight County.  She was a member of Colosse Baptist Church and was active 
in all its activities.

   Besides her husband, surviving are two daughters, Mrs. J.L. Bowden, Jr., 
and Mrs. L.H. Alphin Jr., both of Zuni, two sons, James Howard Bowden of 
Windsor and Bryon Hurford Bowden of Newport News; nine grandchildren; two 
brothers, Hugh Saunders of Zuni and W.E. Saunders of Norfolk; one sister, 
Mrs. A.G. Parsons of Pocomoke City, Md.

   The body was taken to the W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home in Franklin 
and on Sunday was placed in Colosse Baptist Church two hours prior to funeral 
hour.  Funeral services were conducted at the church Sunday at 2:30 p.m. by 
the Rev. Donald E. Trump, pastor, and the Rev. J. Sidney Cobb, former pastor, 
of Windsor, and the Rev. J. Waverly Horne, pastor of Tucker Swamp Baptist 
Church.  Burial was in Colosse Church cemetery.

   Pallbearers were Georgia Bowden, Lloyd Spivey, Shelby Rhodes, Eldridge 
Turner, Johnny Midgett, Aubrey Garrison, Ralph Bowden and Loftin Rhodes.


Mary Elizabeth "Lizzie" (SAUNDERS; Mrs. James H.) BOWDEN, 
Isle of Wight Co. native, d. 21 Nov 1958, at home, Zuni, age 68, 
interred in Colosse Baptist Church Cemetery*, Collosse, 22 Nov 1958, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 26, 1958, Sect. II, p. 7 

*Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #44: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 

Her & her husband's gravestone shows Lizzie E.  (Find A Grave Mem. #60532154) 

Her parents, Joseph Alfred "Allie" & Alice Emily (DUKE) SAUNDERS, 
   are buried in Antioch Christian Church Cemetery, near Windsor. 
   (IWCHS GSSTF report #20) 


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