Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Brown, Edith L., 1942 

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EDITH LOUISE BROWN 

MISS EDITH BROWN BURIED SUNDAY 

  Miss Edith Louise Brown, 18, died Saturday morning at 7 at a hospital in 
Lynchburg*.  She was a daughter of Mrs. B.F. Turner.

  The funeral procession left the Roberts & Johnson Funeral Home Sunday 
afternoon at 4:15 o'clock for services at the Riverview Methodist Church in 
Rescue; the Rev. Paul R. Best officiated.

  Besides her mother, Miss Brown is survived by a brother, Joseph Brown and 
four sisters, Mrs. Bernice Matthews, Mrs. Willie Miller, Mrs. Clinton Turner 
and Mrs. Charlie Wells.

  Active pallbearers were William Carter, Clayton Carter, Douglas Milby, 
Woodrow Martin, Harold Reynolds, Simmie Miller, Elton Turner and Ernest M. 
Homes.

  Honorary pallbearers were friends of the family.


Edith Louise BROWN, 
b. 29 Jan 1924, Isle of Wight Co., d. 2 May 1942, Amherst Co., 
interred in Riverview Methodist Church Cemetery*, near Rescue, 3 May 1942, 
"The Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 24, No. 6, May 7, 1942 

*Additional information: 

Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} #21: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 

She shares a stone with her bro Linwood P.; their maternal grandparents and 
   their parents are buried there also. 

Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. #13294 (Elon #31).  "The Colony" was actually 
   across the river from Lynchburg in Amherst Co. 

Her father, Joseph Walter BROWN, is buried with his first wife, Mary F. 
   (CROCKER MUNFORD) BROWN, in Central Hill Baptist Church Cemetery. 
   (IWCHS GSSTF #56) 

Her mother, Mary Willie (DEWS BROWN; Mrs. Benjamin F.) TURNER, is buried in 
   Battery Park Cemetery, on the outskirts of Battery Park & Rescue. 
   (IWCHS GSSTF #46) 

Her step-father's D.Cert. (1945 #23068) gives bu. Rescue.  He could be bu. at 
   Battery Park Cemetery, but is not on the GSSTF list.  He was in the 
   Merchant Marine - a deckhand on the M/V "Honey Pod" of Norfolk. 


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