Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Holland, Bessie M. Duke, 1966 

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BESSIE MARIAH DUKE HOLLAND

   CARRSVILLE - A funeral service for Mrs. Bessie Duke Holland is scheduled 
for Thursday at 3 p.m. in the Colosse Baptist Church by the Rev. Donald E. 
Trump of Virginia Beach and the Carl Lee Ousley of Holland Baptist Church. 
Burial will be in Colosse Church cemetery with W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral 
Home in charge.

   Pallbearers will be Preston G. Holland, Jasper Carr, Lloyd Duck, Loftin 
Rhodes, Paul Mayo, Curtis Rhodes, J.P. Carr and J.L. Rose Sr.

   Mrs. Holland, 80, died Tuesday morning in Southampton Memorial Hospital, 
Franklin after a long illness.

   A lifelong resident of the Carrsville community she was the widow of the 
late John Allen Holland and the daughter of the late Joseph Henry and Mrs. 
Jane Lankford Duke.

   She was a member of the Colosse Baptist Church, the adult bible class and 
the Woman’s Missionary Society.

   Surviving are three daughters Mrs. Mary H. Stephens of Walters, Mrs. 
Ellinor H. Carr of Norfolk and Mrs. Bessie H. Spivey of Carrsville.  Two sons 
Clifford D. Holland of Holland and J. Raby Holland of Carrsville.  One brother 
J. Lee Duke of Franklin.  Nine grandchildren and three great grandchildren.


Bessie Mariah (DUKE; Mrs. John A.) HOLLAND, 
lifelong resident of Carrsville, d. 25 Oct 1966, Franklin, age 80, 
interred in Colosse Baptist Church Cemetery*, Collosse, 27 Oct 1966, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 27, 1966, p. 6 

*Cemetery list gives her date of death as illegible. 
 Isle of Wight County Historical Society, Grave Site Survey Task Force list: 
 http://www.iwchs.com/Documents/Collosse_Rhodes%20Dr_Cemetery.doc 


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