Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Ellis, Doshie Turner, 1957 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ Mrs. Doshie Ellis Succumbs in County Mrs. Doshie Turner Ellis, 59, died at 11 p.m. Thursday at her home in Buckhorn after a short illness. Funeral services will he conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. at the I.O. Hill and Co. Funeral Home by the Rev. R.E. Brittle, pastor of the Bethlehem Christian Church. Burial will be in the Holland Cemetery. A member of the Holland Christian Church, she was the daughter of the late Charlie Turner and Margaret Johnson Turner of Nansemond County. She is survived by her husband Harry Wilson Ellis, of the home; one daughter, Mrs. Willie Clark of Franklin; three sons, Frank S. Ellis of Suffolk and Robert and Carroll Ellis of Holland; one sister, Mrs. Linwood Worrell of Holland; three brothers, Charlie Turner, Major Turner and Roy Turner, all of Carrsville; and eight grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews. Doshie (TURNER; Mrs. Harry Wilson) ELLIS, b. 9 Dec 1898*, Nansemond Co., d. 16 May 1957, at home, Buckhorn, interred in Holland Cemetery*, 19 May 1957, "Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 35, No. 117, Fri., May 17, 1957, p. 3; clipping posted with Find a Grave Memorial #163049023, by Martha Fontaine Byrum *Additional information: Holland list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/holland.txt Her gravestone shows b. 1899. Find a Grave Memorial #163049023 lists her as Dosha. Her mother "Maggie" is also buried there. D.Cert. 12722 (Upper Chuckatuck #4) Her husband's obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," Jan. 9, 1959, p. 3) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/e420h2ob.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/e420d3ob.txt