Nansemond-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Drake, Elsie Persons, 1961 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ Mrs. Elsie Drake Buried June 5 At Western Branch Mrs. Elsie Persons Drake, 74, of 306 S. Main Street, Suffolk, died Saturday at 1 P.M. in the Lane Nursing Home after a short illness. A native of Isle of Wight County, she was the widow of Frank S. Drake and a daughter of Thomas Anthony and Mrs. Mary Jane Vaughan Persons of Isle Of Wight County. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Suffolk. Only a niece and a nephew survive. They are Mrs. Jane H. Tatem and James Haywood Persons of South Norfolk. A funeral service was conducted in the I.O. Hill & Co. Funeral Home Monday, June 5 at 4 P.M. by the Rev. John C. Mitchell, pastor of First Baptist Church, and the Rev. J. Sidney Cobb. Burial was in Western Branch Church Cemetery. Elsie (PERSONS; Mrs. Frank S.) DRAKE, of Suffolk, b. 12 May 1890, Isle of Wight Co., d. 3 Jun 1961, Suffolk, interred in Western Branch Baptist Church Cemetery (Row 2, Plot 6*), 5 Jun 1961, "Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 42, No. 23, June 8, 1961, p. 3, col. 2 *Western Branch list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/wernbr.txt Her parents are also buried there. Her father's (donated, 1930) obits are posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/p625t1ob.txt Her mother's (donated, 1933) obit is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/p625m1ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by File Manager Matt Harris (zoobug64@aol.com). file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/d620e3ob.txt