Isle of Wight-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Billups, William A., 1980 

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WILLIAM ARTHUR BILLUPS

  ZUNI - A funeral for William Arthur Billups, who died Friday, will be held 
at 2 p.m. today in Purviance Funeral Home, Wakefield.  Burial will be in 
Black Creek Baptist Church, Southampton County.

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WILLIAM ARTHUR BILLUPS

   Zuni - A funeral service for William Arthur Billups, 53, were held Sunday 
at 2 p.m. in Purviance Funeral Chapel, Wakefield, by the Rev. Willis Switzer. 
Burial was in Black Creek Church.

   Pallbearers were Mac Edwards, Jr., Robert C. Fowler, Arthur Carr Jr., 
Cadmus Stephenson, D.S. Edwards Jr., L.J. Bittle, Elliott Story, Ivan Brock 
and Grant Brock.

   He died Friday morning in Norfolk General Hospital.

   A native of Isle of Wight county, he was the husband of Mrs. Lizzie Turner 
Billups.  He was a member of Black Creek Baptist Church, Tucker Swamp Hunt 
Club and was an Army Air Corps veteran of World War II.  He was a Southampton 
county farmer.

   Other survivors include his mother, Mrs. Alice Copeland Billups; two 
daughters, Christine Billups and Shirley Billups, and a son, Milton Billups, 
all of Zuni; two sisters, Mrs. Virginia Rawls of Chesapeake and Mrs. Frances 
McDearmott of Cumberland, R.I.; five brothers, Leon A. Billups of Waco, Tex., 
K. Raymond Billups of Virginia Beach, Frank E. Billups of Belhaven, N.C., 
Joseph J. Billups and Earl M. Billlups of Zuni.


William Arthur BILLUPS, Southampton Co. farmer, 
Army Air Corps veteran of WW-II, 
Isle of Wight Co. native, d. 11 Apr 1980, Norfolk, age 53, 
interred in Black Creek Baptist Church Cemetery*, 13 Apr 1980, 
"The Daily Press" (Newport News, VA), Apr. 13, 1980, p. F-3; 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 17, 1980, p. 12A 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Black Creek list (BC-4): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/blkcrk.txt 

His parents are buried in Tucker Swamp Baptist Church Cemetery. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Tucker Swamp list (TS-3): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/tckrswp.txt 


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