Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Holland, Robert L. Sr., 1950 

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Holland Services Today at 2:30 

  Funeral services for Robert Lee Holland, Sr., well-known livestock dealer 
in Suffolk, who died suddenly Friday morning at his home on West Washington 
Street, are to be held this afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the I.O. Hill Funeral 
Home. 

  The Rev. D.N. Vore, pastor of the Suffolk Christian Church, and the Rev. 
C.T. Topping, pastor of the Oxford Methodist Church are to conduct the 
services. 

  Interment is to follow in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

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R. L. Holland, Sr. Buried Yesterday 

  Funeral servicee for Robert Lee Holland. Sr., well-known livestock dealer in 
Suffolk, who died suddenly Friday morning at his home on West Washington 
Street, were held yesterday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the I.O. Hill Funeral 
Home. 

  The Rev. Duane N. Vore, pastor of the Suffolk Christian Church, and the Rev. 
C.T. Topping, pastor of the Oxford Methodist Church, officiated at the 
services. 

  During the services Mrs. Julian Goodwin played the hymns "Sometimes We'll 
Understand" and "Abide With Me." 

  The Rev. Vore read the poems "God of the Living," "A Comrade Rides Ahead" 
and "Crossing the Bar." 

  The pall was of Easter lilies, white carnations and red roses.  Active 
pallbearers were W.B. Harrell Jr., Graham B. Harrell, Garland Harrell, James 
D. Harrell Jr., John Foster, Herbert Traylor, Lawrence Eley and Robert Swain. 
Honorary pallbearers were friends of the family. 

  Burial followed Cedar Hill Cemetery. 


Robert Lee HOLLAND, Sr., livestock dealer, 
b. 6 Nov 1877, Nansemond Co., suicide 19 May 1950, at home, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery*, Suffolk, 22 May 1950, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 27, No. 40, May 21, 1950, p. 1, col. 5; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 27, No. 41, May 22, 1950, p. 3, col. 2 

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


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