Nansemond-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bowles, Della M. Brett, 1951 

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Mrs. Della Bowles Succumbs at 64 

  Mrs. Della Mae Britt [sic; Brett] Bowles, 64, died at her home 314 Carolina 
Avenue at 6:30 a.m. today after a long illness. 

  Survivors include her husband, David F. Bowles; four sons: Linwood D. 
Bowles, Horace Lee Bowles, of Franklin, Harvey Lee Bowles, and James Thomas 
Bowles, of this city; three daughters, Mrs. Lizzie Mae Marshall, of Weldon, 
N.C., Mrs. Louise Virginia Nelson, and Mrs. Lillian Frances Jordan, of this 
city; nine grandchildren; three brothers, Hubert D. Britt, of Windsor, Jimmie 
O. Britt, of Como, N.C., and Leo Britt, of Isle of Wight County; a half 
brother, Walter Britt, of Como, N.C.; four sisters, Mrs. Vennie Williams, of 
Gates, N.C., Mrs. Eva Whitfield, of Sunbeam, Va., Mrs. Blanche Hargrove, of 
Newsoms, and Mrs. Mary Story, of Norfolk; one half sister, Mrs. Rosa Hill, of 
Portsmouth; a number of nieces and nephews. 

  She was a member of Penticostal Holiness Church.  Funeral services will be 
conducted Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the R.W. Baker Funeral Home by 
the Rev. E.W. Ward. 

  Burial will be in Cedar Hill cemetery. 


"Della" Idella Mae (BRETT; Mrs. Davis* Francis) BOWLES, 
b. 6 May 1886, Como, Hertford Co., NC, d. 23 Feb 1951, at home, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block S, Lot 14*), Suffolk, 25 Feb 1951, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 29, No. 46, Fri., Feb. 23, 1951, p. 3 

*Additional information: 

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

A photo of her gravestone - added by Steve Poole - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #91418685. 

D.Cert. 3520 (Suffolk #78) gives her husband as David. 

Her husband's obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," Apr. 9, 1958, p. 2) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/b420d1ob.txt 

Her parents, "Jimmie" James Elbert & Mary Elizabeth (JOHNSON) BRETT, 
   are buried at the New Hope Church site, Como, Hertford Co., NC. 
   (Find a Grave Mem. #81752855 & #81752834) 

Her father (1834 - 1915) was a Confederate veteran, having served as a private 
   in Co. H, 41st VA Infantry.  His step-mother (1855 - 1930) applied for a 
   pension 28 Jun 1924 in Southampton Co. 

Her father left will 23 Oct 1903, proved 16 Dec 1915. 
   (Hertford Co., NC, WB D:373-75) 


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