Isle of Wight-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Rawls, Antoinette H. Council, 1954 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ Mrs. Nettie Rawls Succumbs at 88 Mrs. Nettie H. Rawls, 88, died this morning at 6:30 a.m. at the home of her daughter, Mrs. E.E. McClenny, of Crittenden. She was the wife of the late John F. Rawls, of Holland, and a daughter of the late Jesse and Antoinette Simons Council, of Isle of Wight County. Besides Mrs. McClenny, she is survived by two other daughters, Mrs. James A. Goodrick [sic; Goodrich], of Suffolk, and Mrs. E.B. Willock, of Newport News; a son, Felton C. Rawls, of Suffolk; nine grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren; a sister, Miss Bertie Council, of Norfolk, and a number of nieces and nephews. The body was taken to the I.O. Hill and Company Funeral Home, where it will remain until Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock. At this time it will be taken to Beaver Dam Baptist Church for funeral services at 2:30 p.m. Officiating minister will be the Rev. E.C. Thornton. Interment will take place in the church cemetery. "Nettie" Antoinette Hazeltine (COUNCIL; Mrs. John Freeman) RAWLS, formerly of Holland, b. 2 Jul 1865*, Surry Co., d. 25 Feb 1954, at daughter's home, Crittenden, interred in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery**, near Carrsville, 28 Feb 1954, "Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 32, No. 47, Thurs., Feb. 25, 1954, p. 9, posted with Find a Grave Memorial #189977776, by Martha Fontaine Byrum **Beaver Dam list (BD-64) - an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTS} report #42: http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html Find a Grave spells middle name Hasseltine (May 2022). *D.Cert. 4277 (Crittenden #1) gives age 87. Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/r420a4ob.txt