Isle of Wight-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Presson, Stella Cobb, 1987 

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STELLA COBB PRESSON

   FRANKLIN - Stella Cobb Presson, 79, died May 7, in a hospital.

   Mrs. Presson, a native of Isle of Wight County, was the East Pavilion 
correspondent for the Tidewater News for eight years.  She was a member of 
Colosse Baptist Church.

   Survivors include her husband, Emerson T. Presson; two daughters, Helen P. 
Ellis of Windsor and Mary Ellen Joyner of Kennewick, Wash.; a son, James E. 
Presson of Carrsville; four sisters, Edith McKool of Virginia Beach; Emma 
Rogister of Windsor, Katherine Jenkins of Carrsville and Jane Clark of 
Wakefield; three brothers, Forest Cobb of Windsor, Herman Cobb of Franklin and 
Coston Cobb of Zuni; 13 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.

   The funeral was conducted Saturday in Colosse Baptist Church by the Rev. 
Mitchell Luckie.  Burial was in the church cemetery.  Wright Funeral Home 
handled arrangements.


Stella (COBB; Mrs. Emerson T.) PRESSON, 
8-year "Tidewater News" East Pavilion correspondent, 
Isle of Wight Co. native, d. 7 May 1987, age 79, 
interred in Colosse Baptist Church Cemetery*, Collosse, 9 May 1987, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 11, 1987, p. 7 

*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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