Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Rhodes, Elan T., 1935 

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ELAN THOMAS RHODES

   Elan Thomas Rhodes, 54, prominent farmer of Colosse, Isle of Wight County, 
died on Monday morning of this week in Lakeview Hospital in Suffolk, after a 
short illness. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Marie H. Rhodes; a daughter, 
Miss Frances Rhodes, two sons Elan T. Rhodes, Jr., and William Joseph Rhodes; 
four brothers, Ernest, Emmett H., John and Kenny Rhodes; four sisters, Mrs. 
Eunice Wiggins, Mrs. Mattie Lewis, Mrs. Edna Gay, and Mrs. Dolly Carr.

   Funeral services were conducted from the Colosse Baptist Church on Wednesday 
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock by Rev. J. Sidney Cobb. Interment was made in the 
church cemetery, with the following as active pallbearers: John A. Coggins, 
Hurley Gay, Chester L. Carr, Jesse Holland, Willie Holmes, W.E. Spires, Mills 
Spivey and Raleigh Rhodes. Members of the W.O.W. Lodge, with which the deceased 
was affiliated, were honorary pallbearers.


[Elan Thomas RHODES, Collosse farmer, d. 2 Dec 1935, Suffolk, age 54, 
 interred in Colosse Baptist Church Cemetery, Collosse, 4 Dec 1935, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 6, 1935] 

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