Isle of Wight-Sussex-Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Wallace, Emma J. Buhls, 2008 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ EMMA JANE BUHLS WALLACE WAVERLY - Emma Jane Buhls Wallace, 70, a resident of Waverly, passed away Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2008, with her loving family by her side. Born in Surry County, Va., she was the daughter of the late Jasper Ray and Irene Thomas Buhls and the widow of Robert Daniel Wallace. She was a 1956 graduate of Surry High School, where she excelled in sports and was voted "Most Athletic" and was treasurer of her senior class. She also was an All- State drummer in the Surry High Band. Emma Jane graduated as a Registered Nurse in 1959 from the Louise Obici School of Nursing in Suffolk and worked as an RN for Obici Hospital from 1960- 1968. She worked at the Kenner Army Hospital on Ward B2 at Ft. Lee in Petersburg from 1968 until she retired in 1996. She was also a member of Wakefield Baptist Church and the Surry Ruritan Club. Emma Jane is survived by her daughter, Martha Marie Galloway and her husband, Billy, of Waverly; three grandchildren, Robert Daniel Galloway, Faith Nicole Galloway and Ashley Maria Massey; two nephews, Kendall Ray Buhls and Wendall Ray Buhls; and a niece, Sharon Rene’ Thornton of Knott's Island, N.C. She was predeceased by a grandson, William A. "Will" Galloway IV, and a brother, Jasper Ray Buhls, Jr. Emma Jane was a devoted and loving caregiver as a wife, mother, grandmother, mother-in-law, and to her many patients through her years in nursing. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10, at Wakefield Baptist Church with the Rev. James Kerr officiating. Interment will follow in Mill Swamp Baptist Church Cemetery, Ivor. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday at the Purviance Chapel of J.T. Morriss & Son Funeral Home, Wakefield, and following the interment Sunday at a reception in the Fellowship Hall of the church. The family requests memorial donations to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105, or the ALS Foundation for Life, P.O. Box 504, Franklin, MA 02038-0504 "Emma Jane, your family will love and miss their dear Me-Me and Mom forever." Emma Jane (BUHLS CAHOON; Mrs. Robert D.) WALLACE, of Waverly, retired RN, b. 28 May 1937, Surry Co., d. 6 Feb 2008, Sussex Co., interred in Mill Swamp Baptist Church Cemetery*, 10 Feb 2008, J.T. Morriss & Son Funeral Home obit, posted with Find a Grave Mem. #24476006 *Emma died after the 2004 compilation of Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #55: http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html Her parents are also buried there. (Find a Grave Mem. #104436262 &c.) Her first husband, Edward Oscar CAHOON (b. 14 Jul 1933, Columbia, NC) was also buried there, but doe not appear on the GSSTF report or Find a Grave. He shot himself in the hert, 2 Nov 1965. (D.Cert. 65-032420) They m. 18 Nov 1960. (Suffolk #88) Robert's (donated, 1986) obit is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/w420r3ob.txt Her paternal grandparents, Irving & Margaret Jane (POND) BULLS, are buried in a BULLS family cemetery, on Harris Rd., near Sedley. Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 5 (V-39): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol5.txt According to oral tradition, Emma mother was responsible for the change in spelling - BULLS "sounds like a bunch of cows." Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/w420e2ob.txt