Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Holland, Mary L. Rawles, 1948 

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Rites Friday For Mrs. Mary Holland 

  Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Rawls [sic; Rawles] Holland, 66, who died 
yesterday at 12:45 p.m. at a local hospital after an illness of a week, will 
be held tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock at the Holy Neck Christian Church. 
The Rev. Paul S. Grice will officiate. 

  The widow of Thomas Burgess Holland of near Holland, Nansemond County, she 
is survived by six daughters, Miss Lucille Holland of Suffolk, Mrs. Elmo 
Worrell, Mrs. E.R. Chappell and Mrs. Romie Holland, all of Holland; Mrs. J.R. 
Barnhill of Washington, D.C., and Mrs. Royal Taylor ot Newport News; four 
sons, J. Conway Holland of Franklin, B.F. Holland of Wilmington, Delaware, 
John Thomas Holland and Kenneth R. Holland, both of Richmond; two sisters, 
Mrs. W.H. Britton and Miss Effa Rawls of Suffolk; a brother, 
Jackson Rawls of Whaleyville; 11 grandchildren, one niece and one nephew. 

  She was an active member of the Holy Neck Christian Church. 

  The body was taken to the I.O. Hill Funeral Home, where it will remain until 
tomorrow afternoon at 2:15 o'clock.  At this time the funeral procession will 
leave for the Holy Neck Church.  Interment will take place in the family 
cemetery near Holy Neck. 


Mary Lizzie (RAWLES; Mrs. Thomas Burgess) HOLLAND, 
b. 15 Apr 1882, Nansemond Co., d. 15 Dec 1948, Suffolk, 
interred in the family cemetery*, near Holy Neck Christian Church, 
   17 Dec 1948, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 25, No. 216, Thurs., Dec. 16, 1948, p. 1 

*Additional information: 

Site not known (Oct 2024) to the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project. 

D.Cert. 27112 (Suffolk #379) gives daughter of Benjamin K. & Viola (BYRD) 
   RAWLES. 

No Find a Grave Memorial 

The family appear in the 1930 Census - Holy Neck Dist., Nansemond Co. - 
   on the Holland to Whaleyville Rd., on Farm #96. 

They appear in the 1940 Census - Holy Neck Dist., Nansemond Co. - 
   on Farm #64. 

Her husband's obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," May 19, 1940, p. 8) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/h453t5ob.txt 


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