Nansemond-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gwaltney, Bettie C. Nelms, 1963 

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BETTIE CLEE NELMS GWALTNEY 

   WINDSOR - Mrs. Bettie Clee Gwaltney, 71, of Route 2, vice president of 
Community Electic Cooperative here, died in Obici Memorial Hospital Monday 
at 6:25 a.m.

   Mrs. Gwaltney was one of the organizers of the cooperative in 1938 and 
served on its original board of directors.  She was made vice president in 
1944.

   The widow of Jesse Henry Gwaltney, she was a daughter of McKim and 
Wortley Bartlett Nelms of Nansemond County.  She was a member of Windsor 
Congregational Christian Church, its Womens Fellowship and its Ladies Bible 
Class.

   Survivors include; six sons, William A. Gwaltney of Windsor, J. Henry 
Gwaltney of Suffolk, Robert A. Gwaltney of Whaleyville, Thomas M. Gwaltney 
of Roanoke, J. Johnson Gwaltney of Lynchburg and Chesley R. Gwaltney of 
Baltimore; five daughters, Mrs. Bruce K. Johnson of Windsor, Mrs. Russell 
Shaw of Baltimore, Mrs. J.A. Everett, Jr., of Smithfield, Mrs. E. Warren 
Beale of Courtland, and Mrs. J.E. Chappell of Norfolk; three sisters, Mrs. 
D.H. Stassford and Mrs. H.F. Saunders of Norfolk and Mrs. Marvin L. Vaughan 
of Suffolk; a brother, M.C. Nelms, Jr., of Norfolk; 26 grandchildren; and 
seven great-grandchildren.

   A funeral service was conducted in R.W. Baker and Co. Funeral Home, 
Suffolk, Wednesday at 2 p.m. by the Rev. William A. Grissom, pastor, and 
the Rev. T. Fred Wright, retired.  Burial was in Holly Lawn Cemetery, Suffolk.


Bettie Clee (NELMS; Mrs. Jesse H.) GWALTNEY, 
vice president of Community Electic Cooperative, 
Nansemond Co. native, d. 18 Mar 1963, Suffolk, age 71, 
interred in Holly Lawn Cemetery (Block B, Lot 8*), Suffolk, 20 Mar 1963, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 21, 1963, Sect. II, p. 1 

*Holly Lawn list, an extension of 
   the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/hollyln.txt 

Her parents are buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk. 
   Cedar Hill list, another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_m.txt 

Her husband's obit ("Smithfield Times," Aug. 3, 1933, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/g435j2ob.txt 

He & his first wife were buried in Antioch Christian Church Cemetery, 
   near Windsor, and were later moved to Holly Lawn. 


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