Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Holland, Joseph G., 1937 

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JOSEPH GODWIN HOLLAND

   Suffolk, June 4 - Funeral services for Joseph Godwin Holland, prominent 
citizen of Holland, were conducted at the Holland Baptist Church this morning 
at 10 o’clock by the Rev. W.H. Corbitt, assisted by the Rev. Carl R. Key, Dr. 
N.G. Newman and Dr. J.H. Lightbourne of Burlington, N.C.  Burial was in the 
family cemetery near Holland.

   Active pallbearers were Dr. G.G. Holland, Howard Luke, Tom Hodsden of 
Washington, D.C., L.J. Daughtery, A.J. Holland, J.T. Jones, I.H. Luke, E.T. 
Batten, W.W Leathers, Warren Dalton.

   The Intermediate Girls’ Sunday School Class of the Holland Baptist Church 
were bearers of many beautiful Floral contributions.  A solo, "Going Home," 
was sung by Mrs. Joe E. Holland and "Sunrise Tomorrow" was sung by Mrs. 
Vernon E. Holland, with Mrs. E.J. Howell as accompanist.

   At the grave W.W. Darden sang "Gathering Home."  The casket was covered 
with a pall of red radiance roses.


Joseph Godwin HOLLAND, of Holland, 
d. 2 Jun 1937, 
interred in the HOLLAND family cemetery*, near Holland, 4 Jun 1937; 
later re-interred in Holly Lawn Cemetery (Sect. 3, Block F, Lot 2*), Suffolk, 
donated obit, newspaper unknown 

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

His parents, William T. & Sarah A. (CROSS) HOLLAND, are buried in a 
   HOLLAND family cemetery, off US Hwy. 58, across from the Research Station. 
   Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Cemeteries Vol. 1 (I-36), 
   another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol1.txt 


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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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