Isle of Wight-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Duke, Mamie Nelms, 1960 

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MAMIE NELMS DUKE

MRS. JOHN F. DUKE, 91, TO BE BURIED TUESDAY

   CARRSVILLE - Mrs. Mamie Nelms Duke, 91, will be buried Tuesday in Beaver 
Dam Cemetery.

   Funeral services will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. at Beaver Dam Church by 
the Rev. Edwin C. Thornton, pastor.

   Mrs. Duke died Sunday at 8:05 p.m. at her home following a lingering 
illness.

   A native of Windsor, she was a daughter of James Edward and Mary Darden 
Nelms of Isle of Wight county, and the widow of John F. Duke, Sr., who died 
last April.

   She was a member of Beaver Dam Baptist Church and its Woman’s Missionary 
Union.  She was a former school teacher in Nansemond County.

   She is survived by two daughters, Miss Elizabeth Duke of Carrsville and 
Miss Louise Duke of Carrsville and Oceana and a son, John F. Duke, Jr., of 
Carrsville.

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MRS. JOHN F. DUKE

   CARRSVILLE - Funeral services for Mrs. Mamie Nelms Duke were conducted 
Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. in Beaver Dam Church by the Rev. Edwin C. Thornton, 
pastor, assisted by two former pastors, Dr. W.B. Denson and the Rev. N.C. 
Clifton.

   Pallbearers were Jarvis Howell, Hunter Daughtrey, Emmitt Rawls, William 
Rose, John Edward Rose, Jr., W.T. Winborne, J. Dewitt Wright and Roy Worrell.


Mamie (NELMS; Mrs. John F. Sr.) DUKE, former Nansemond Co. school teacher, 
Windsor native, d. 7 Feb 1960, at home, age 91, 
interred in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery*, near Franklin, 9 Feb 1960, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 8, 1960, p. 4; 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 11, 1960, sect. 1, p. 4 

*Beaver Dam list (BD-33) - 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," Apr. 13, 1959, I-1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/d200j4ob.txt 

Her parents & step-mothers are buried in Shiloh Cemetery, near Windsor. 
   Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #4: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 


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