Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Doughtie, Wesley S., 1958 

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Funeral Is Held For W. S. Doughtie 

  Funeral services for Wesley Spurgeon Doughtie were conducted today at 3 p.m. 
at the First Baptist Church by the Rev. John C. Mitchell, pastor.  Burial was 
in Holly Lawn Cemetery.  Members of the American Legion and of the Veterans of 
Foreign Wars served as honorary pallbearers. 

  Mr. Doughtie, 48, died Saturday at 8:15 p.m. at the McGuire Hospital, 
Richmond, after an illness of five months. 

  He was the husband of Ruth South Doughtie and the son of the late William 
Doughtie and Sarah Piland Doughtie of Gatesville, N.C. 

  Besides his wife, he is survived by seven sieters, Mrs. Hubert H. Swanner of 
Nansemond County, Mrs. Fay Jones of Suffolk, Mrs. Virginia D Smith of Suffolk, 
Mrs. J.T. Turner of Winton, N.C., Mrs. C.M. Perry of Gatesville, N.C., Mrs. 
June Green of Roduco, N.C., and Mrs. R.L. Wolfley of Newport News; three 
brothers, J.M. Doughtie and Tom Doughtie of Eure, N.C., and Presley Doughtie 
of Swan Quarter, N.C., and nieces and nephews. 

  He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Suffolk, Post 37 of the 
American Legion, and of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Suffolk.  For the past 
two years, he had operated a grocery store here on East Washington street. 

  He was a veteran of World War II and served in England.  As a youth, he 
served in the Army Medical Corps for nine years. 


Wesley Spurgin DOUGHTIE, Suffolk grocer, former butcher, 
   Army Medical Corps veteran of WW-II, 
b. 17 Apr 1910, Gatesville, Gates Co., NC, d. 8 Mar 1958, Richmond, 
interred in Holly Lawn Cemetery*, Suffolk, 10 Mar 1958, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 36, No. 58, Mon., Mar. 10, 1958, 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 Hixburg23958 - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #180275936. 

D.Cert. 7754 (Manchester #94) 

His widow (1919-2010) is buried in Fairmount Cemetery, Red Level, 
   Covington Co., AL. 

His parents are buried in Harrells Methodist Church Cemetery, Gates Co., NC. 


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