Isle of Wight-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Holland, Bertha M. Bowden, 1986 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ Bertha Holland WINDSOR - Mrs. Bertha Bowden Holland, 87, died Aug. 9, 1986 in Louise Obici Memorial Hospital. A native of Southampton County, she was a member of Windsor Christian Church. Survivors include one stepdaughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Wilkins of Windsor; one sister, Mrs. W.H. Hargrave of Carrollton; several nieces and nephews; and eight stepgrandchildren. The funeral will be conducted Monday at 3 p.m. in Colonial Funeral Home Chapel, Smithfield. The Revs. Eddie Walker and Russell O. Leonard will officiate. Burial will be in Antioch Christian Church Cemetery, Windsor. The family will receive friends today from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the funeral home, and at all other times in the home of Mrs. Hargrave, on Hwy. 665, Carrollton. Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society. ****************************************************************************** Bertha B. Holland WINDSOR - Mrs. Bertha Bowden Holland, 87, of Windsor, died Saturday, Aug. 9, in Louise Obici Memorial Hospital, Suffolk. Mrs. Holland, a native of Southampton County, was a member of Windsor Christian Church. Survivors include one step-daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Wilkins, Windsor; one sister, Mrs. W.H. Hargrave, Carrollton; several nieces and nephews and eight step-grandchildren. Services were held at 3 p.m. Monday at Colonial Funeral Home Chapel, Smithfield, with the Rev. Eddie Walker and the Rev. Russell O. Leonard officiating. Burial was at Antioch Christian Church Cemetery, Windsor. Pallbearers were J. Melvin Powell, Robert L. Butler, W.H. Hargrave II, Duane Ashland, Wallace R Spencer, John Hargrave, John M. Spruill and George Powell. The family suggests memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society. Colonial Funeral Home was in charge of the arrangements. Bertha May (BOWDEN HAYES ROBERTS; Mrs. Jesse Whitney) HOLLAND, of Windsor, b. 14 Jul 1899, Southampton Co., d. 9 Aug 1986, Suffolk, interred in Antioch Christian Church Cemetery*, near Windsor, 11 Aug 1986, "Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 64, No. 190, Sun., Aug. 10, 1986, p. 2, posted with Find a Grave Memorial #60495727 by Martha Fontaine Byrum; "Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 67, No. 33, Wed., Aug. 13, 1986, p. 6 *Additional information: Antioch list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/antioch.txt Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #20: http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html A photo of her gravestone, added by Ron Stewart, is also posted with her Find a Grave Memorial. Her parents, Robert Morgan & "Nannie" Nancy L. (JOHNSON) BOWDEN, and her maternal grandparents are also buried there. D.Cert. 86-027779 We have her listed with her third husband (1886 - 1957), but he is buried with his first wife in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery, near Carrsville. Beaver Dam list, another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt {IWCHS GSSTF report #42} His obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 7, 1957, II-6) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/h453j18o.txt Bertha 1m. Robert Donald HAYES (b. ca. 1899, Cleveland, OH), 3 Nov 1923 in IoW.Co.; they div. in 1928. [Suggested records at Ancestry.com confuse him with others.] She 2m. widower Mills Morgan ROBERTS (1861 - 1943), 19 May 1928 in Windsor. Curiously, his D.Cert. (1633 {Windsor #2} gives married, spouse of Annie ROBERTS; the informant was his son Oscar Terrell ROBERTS. Mills is buried with his first wife Annie M. (FULGHAM) ROBERTS (1873 - 1921) in Windsor Cemetery. {IWCHS GSSTF report #26} Morgan's obit ("Smithfield Times," Jan. 28, 1943, p. 1) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/r163m12o.txt Her infant brother Robert BOWDEN (1901 - 1902) and their paternal grandparents James Thomas & "Mollie" Mary Louise (HART) BOWDEN are buried in a BOWDEN family cemetery at Seacock Corner in Southampton Co. SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 9 (MV-IX-38) : http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol9.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by File Manager Matt Harris (zoobug64@aol.com). file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/h453b3ob.txt