Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bowden, Mills D., 1965 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ MILLS DEMPSEY BOWDEN CARRSVILLE - Mills Dempsey Bowden, 88, died Sunday at 7 p.m. in his home. A native of Isle of Wight County, he as a son of Dempsey and Mrs. Mary E. Bowden and the husband of the late Mrs. Mary Hines Bowden. He was a member and senior deacon of Colosse Baptist Church and the oldest member of Walters Woodman of the World Lodge. He is survived by two sons. Ralph H. Bowden and George T. Bowden of Carrsville; a daughter, Mrs. Randolph Rose of Walters; four sisters, Mrs. Joseph D. Vaughan of Norfolk, Mrs. Ella M. Cones of Suffolk, Mrs. Effie Spivey of Windsor and Mrs. Mattie Johnson of Carrsville; eight grandchildren and 19 great-grandchildren. A funeral service was held Tuesday at 2 p.m. in W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Chapel by the Rev. Donald E. Trump. Burial was in Colosse Church Cemetery. Pallbearers were Ryland Lewis, Shelby Rhodes, Lofton Rhodes, Eldridge Turner, Keith Johnson, Lloyd Spivey and Raymond Vaughan. [Mills Dempsey BOWDEN, Isle of Wight Co. native, d. 3 Jan 1965, at home, age 88, interred in the Colosse Baptist Church Cemetery*, Collosse, 5 Jan 1965, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 7, 1965] [*Isle of Wight County Historical Society, Grave Site Survey Task Force list: http://www.iwchs.com/Documents/Collosse_Rhodes%20Dr_Cemetery.doc] 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/b350m6ob.txt