Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bracey, Lizzie Johnson, 1961 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ LIZZIE JOHNSON BRACEY CARRSVILLE - Mrs. Lizzie Johnson Bracey, 83, died in her home here Wednesday afternoon after a brief illness. A lifelong resident here, she was a daughter of George W. and Mrs. Margaret Carson Johnson and the widow of John R. Bracey. She was a member of Beaver Dam Baptist Church and its Woman’s Missionary Union. She had been a teacher of its Young Married Women’s Class 40 years. Survivors include a daughter, Miss Josie E. Bracey of Carrsville, and two sisters, Mrs. Gertie Kyle and Mrs. Jachin Forbes of Franklin. A funeral service was conducted in Beaver Dam Church Friday at 2 p.m. by the Rev. Edwin C. Thornton, pastor and the Rev. Ira D. Hudgins of Franklin Baptist Church. Burial was in Beaver Dam Church Cemetery. The body was brought to the church at 1 p.m. from W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home, Franklin. Pallbearers were Jarvis Howell, Hunter Daughtrey, Willie Carr, William Rose, James Bracey, Jr., Willie Winborne, E.H. Whitley and Sam O. Butler. Elizabeth "Lizzie" (JOHNSON; Mrs. John R.) BRACEY, lifelong Carrsville resident, d. 29 Mar 1961, at home, age 83, interred in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery*, near Franklin, 31 Mar 1961, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 3, 1961, p. 4 *Her parents are also buried there. Beaver Dam list (BD-7 & -49), an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Feb. 7, 1957, I-7) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/b620j1ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 3, 1961, p. 4 file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/b620e2ob.txt