Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bell, Blanche G. Kilby, 1966 

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BLANCHE GLAZEBROOK KILBY BELL

MRS. BLANCHE KILBY BELL, SUFFOLK, STATE CLUB LEADER

   Suffolk - Mrs. Blanche Kilby Bell, 87, widow of G. Lloyd Bell and a club 
leader in the state, died Monday in Hillcrest Senior Citizens Nursing Home.

   A Suffolk native, she was a graduate of Suffolk College, a member of the 
Social Club, Suffolk Magazine Club, and Lake Kilby Garden Club.

   She helped form many organizations. She was a member and past president of 
the Ministering Circle of Kings Daughters. She also had a part in bringing a 
visiting nurse to Suffolk and in organizing the Hill Street Night School.

   In the Daughters of the American Revolution, she was regent many years and 
helped organize Constantia Chapter in Suffolk. Through her work, the Suffolk 
DAR erected the Constantia House in Cedar Hill Cemetery which is a replica of 
a 1737 homesite.

   She was a member of the Daughters of the Colonists, the Founders and the 
Patriots and the Order of Runnymeade, a past president of the United Daughters 
of the Confederacy and a past state president of the Colonial Dames of the 
17th century.

   She was a member of Main Street Methodist Church and its Woman’s Society of 
Christian Service.  Her parents were Wallace and Margaret Tynes Kilby.

   Survivors are a nephew, Wallace Kilby Brown of Richmond, and a great-niece, 
Mrs. W. Roy Smith of Petersburg.

   A funeral service will be held today at 2 p.m. in Baker Funeral Home by the 
Rev. John Teter of Main Street Methodist Church.  Burial will be in Cedar Hill.


Blanche Glazebrook (KILBY; Mrs. G. Lloyd) BELL, 
Suffolk native, d. 28 Feb 1966, Suffolk, age 79, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery*, Suffolk, 1 Mar 1966, 
"The Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Mar. 1, 1966 

*Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 

Her parents are buried in Block C, Lot 14. 


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