Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Beale, Oscar L., 1960 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ Oscar L. Beale Rites Set Today HOLLAND - Funeral services for Oscar Lee Beale will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. at the Hill Funeral Home by the Rev. Carl C. Dollar, pastor of the Holland Christian Church. Burial will be in Holly Lawn Cemetery. Mr. Beale, 74, died Friday at 3:30 p. m. at his home near Holland after a short illness. He was a native of Nansemond County, a farmer and was the son of Robert and Mrs. Mary Ann Holland Beale of the County. He was a member of Holland Christian Church. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mamie Butler Beale; two daughters, Mrs. Elmer Godrey Jr., of Smithfield, and Mrs. John R. Rose Jr., of Windsor; two sons, Howard Beale of Holland and Marshall Beale of Crittenden; a sister, Mrs. Wade Nelms of Norfolk; three brothers, Willie A. Beale of Waverly, E. Clyde Beale of Holland and Robert O. Beale of Norfolk. ****************************************************************************** OSCAR LEE BEALE HOLLAND - Oscar Lee Beale, 74, died Friday at 3:30 p.m. at his home near Holland after a short illness. He was a native of Nansemond County and a farmer. He was a son of Robert and Mrs. Mary Ann Holland Beale of the county. He was a member of Holland Christian Church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mamie Butler Beale; two daughters, Mrs. Elmer Godfrey, Jr., of Smithfield and Mrs. John R. Rose, Jr., of Windsor; three sons, Howard Beale of Waverly, E. Clyde Beale of Holland and Robert O. Beale of Norfolk, and 10 grandchildren. Funeral services were held at the Hill Funeral Home, Suffolk, Sunday at 2 p.m. by the Rev. Carl C. Dollar of Holland Christian Church. Burial was in Holly Lawn Cemetery. Pallbearers were S.J. Butler, Jr., Robert O. Beale, Jr., James Joyner, Robert Harvell, Cecil L. Beale, Theodore Eason, P.B. Butler, Jr., and Harvey A. Butler. Oscar Lee BEALE, farmer, b. 1 Jul 1885, Nansemond Co., d. 29 Apr 1960, at home, near Holland, interred in Holly Lawn Cemetery (Block B, Section 7, Lot 6*), Suffolk, 1 May 1960, "Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 38, No. 103, Sun., May 1, 1960, p. 11; "Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Vol. 55, No. 55, Thurs., May 5, 1960, p. 3 *Additional information: Holly Lawn list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/hollyln.txt A photo of his gravestone - added by Ken Campbell - is posted with Find a Grave Memorial #133256373. D.Cert. 11748 (Holy Neck #8) His parents,Robert Lee & Mary Ann (HOLLAND) BEALE, are buried in Holland Cemetery. Holland list, another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/holland.txt 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/nansemond/obits/b400o1ob.txt