Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Nelms, William D., 1951 

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WILLIAM DECATUR NELMS

   William Decatur Nelms, 73, of Isle of Wight County died at the residence on 
Saturday afternoon, May 5, at 2:30 o’clock. He was a member of the Central Hill 
Baptist Church.

   He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Roxie Wills Nelms; two daughters, Mrs. 
Walter Holland of Windsor and Mrs. Jasper Holland of Zuni; one son, William 
Allen Nelms of Emporia; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren; and a 
number of nieces and newphews.

   Funeral services were conducted at the Central Hill Baptist Church on Monday 
afternoon at 3 o’clock by Rev. R.D. Stephenson of Franklin and Rev. Thomas 
Fryer. The choir sang "Asleep in Jesus" and "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" and 
Mrs. L.H. Whitley and Mrs. Thomas Powellsang as a duet "In A Land Where We’ll 
Never Grow Old"

   Burial was in the church cemetery, the active pallbearers being Herbert, 
Linwood and Oliver Bradshaw, August Jenkins, Gurley Nelms, Thomas Nelms, Eugene 
Robertson and A.F. Wills, Jr.  Honorary pallbearers were members of the Seward 
Men’s Bible Class.

[William Decatur NELMS, d. 5 May 1951, age 73, 
 interred in Central Hill Baptist Church Cemetery, 7 May 1951, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 11, 1951] 

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