Nansemond-Southampton-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bowden, William J., 1970 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ WILLIAM JAMES BOWDEN Smithfield - A funeral service for William James (Buddy) Bowden was conducted at 2 p.m. Monday in I.O. Hill Funeral Home, Suffolk, by the Rev. Earl J. Spring and the Rev. J.A. Griffin. Burial was in Holly Lawn Cemetery. Bowden, 47, of Route 1, died Saturday at 9 a.m. in Louise Obici Memorial Hospital, Suffolk. A native of Ivor, he was a son of Mrs. Mary Jones Bowden Bailey of Suffolk and the late Willie Kenny Bowden and the husband of Mrs. Ernestine Green Bowden. Besides his wife and mother, he is survived by a daughter, Miss Miriam Cheryl Bowden of Lynchburg; a son, Johnnie Bowden of Murfreesboro, N.C.; three sisters, Mrs. Martha Oliver of Smithfield, Mrs. Emily Gingras of Suffolk and Mrs. Florence Hines of Nansemond County; and two grandchildren. William James "Buddy" BOWDEN, Ivor native, d. 3 Jan 1970, Suffolk, age 47, interred in Holly Lawn Cemetery*, Suffolk, 5 Jan 1970, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 8, 1970 *Holly Lawn list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/hollyln.txt 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/nansemond/obits/b350w2ob.txt