Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Holladay, Elise H. Urquhart, 1945 

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ELISE HARRISON URQUHART HOLLADAY

MRS. HOLLADAY, OF SUFFOLK, DIED FRIDAY

PROMINENT CLUBWOMAN SUCCUMBS AT HOSPITAL

   Mrs. Elise Urquhart Holladay, wife of Frank Alto Holladay, active in 
social, civic, and religious activities in the State, died Friday at a local 
hospital.

   A daughter of the late Murdoch and Hettie Dillard Urquhart, Mrs. Holladay 
had resided in Suffolk.  She was past president of the woman's auxilary of the 
Episcopal Diocese of Southern Virginia, and also past president of the woman's 
auxiliary of St. Paul's Episcopal Church, and of the Randolph Society of the 
church.

   A Past President of the Suffolk Literary Club, and the Suffolk Woman's 
Club, Mrs. Holladay was a member of the Daughters of the Confederacy, the 
Daughters of the American Revolution, and chairman of the Tidewater Division 
of the Colonial Dames of Virginia.

   At the time of her death she was State corresponding secretary of the 
Garden Club of Virginia and a member of the Nansemond River Garden Club and 
one of its past presidents.  She was also a member of the Poetry Society of 
Virginia, and had published a book of verse.  Mrs. Holladay was an authority 
on flower culture, and her garden was one of the show places of Suffolk.

   Funeral services for Mrs. Holladay will be conducted at 4 P.M. Sunday at 
St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Suffolk, with the rector, the Rev. L.A.Haskell, 
in charge.  Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk.


Elise Harrison (URQUHART; Mrs. Frank A.) HOLLADAY, 
d. 17 Aug 1945, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block C, Lot 39*), Suffolk, 19 Aug 1945, 
"The Richmond (VA) Times-Dispatch," Sat., Aug. 18, 1945 

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

Her parents are buried in Block C, Lot 105. 
   Cedar Hill list for URQUHART: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_s.txt 

Her husband's obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," Aug. 6, 1952) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/h430f1ob.txt 


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