Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pierce, Selma G. Jones, 1963 

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Mrs. Pierce's Rites Are Set For Thursday 

  Funeral services for Mrs. Selma Gertrude Jones Pierce will be conducted 
Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in the Hill Funeral Home by the Rev. R.E. Brittle, 
pastor of Bethlehem Christian Church, and the Rev. R.T. Grissom, pastor of 
Holy Neck Christian Church.  Burial will be in Holy Neck Christian Church 
Cemetery. 

  The family will be at the home of Mrs. E.H. Stephenson, 908 Virginia Ave., 
on Thursday. 

  Mrs. Pierce, 49, of 1319 Holland Road, died Tuesday in Portsmouth Naval 
Hospital after a short illness. 

  She was a native of Nansemond County and a member of Bethelehem Christian 
Church and its Ladies Star Sunday School Class and of Sinai Chapter 8, Order 
of Eastern Star. 

  Her parents were Brock Darden and Mrs. Selma Rawles Jones of Nansemond 
County. 

  She is survived by her husband, Morris Woodard Pierce; a son, Morris 
Woodard Pierce Jr. of the home; two sisters, Mrs. John G. Truitt of Elon 
College, N.C., and Mrs. E.H. Stephenson of Suffolk; and five brothers, Dr. 
Darden W. Jones and William T. Jones of Franklin, Dr. Brock E. Jones of 
Norfolk, Elijah N. Jones of Greenwich, Conn., and James C. Jones of Holland. 

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Mrs. Selma Pierce Buried Yesterday 

  Funeral services for Mrs. Selma Gertrude Jones Pierce, who died Tuesday, 
were conducted Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in the Hill Funeral Home by the Rev. 
R.E. Brittle, pastor of Bethlehem Christian Church, and the Rev. R.T. Grissom, 
pastor of Holy Neck Christian Church.  Burial was in Holy Neck Church 
Cemetery. 

  Pallbearers were Watt Jones, Elsworth Jones, Tall Jones, Emerson Jones, 
Brock J. Scott, James Rawls Beale, John C. Pierce and A.B. Davis. 


Selma Gertrude (JONES; Mrs. Morris W. Sr.) PIERCE, 
b. 22 Apr 1914, Nansemond Co., d. 15 Oct 1963, Portsmouth, 
interred in Holy Neck Christian Church Cemetery*, 17 Oct 1963, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 41, No. 248, Wed., Oct. 16, 1963, p. 2; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 41, No. 259, Fri., Oct. 18, 1963, p. 2 

*Additional information: 

Holy Neck list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/holynk.txt 

Photos of her gravestone & plot - added by Jake Dog - are posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #71815862. 

Her parents are also buried there, as is son Morris Jr., who died in Vietnam. 
   There are also some infants buried beside Selma, without names or dates. 

D.Cert. 27843 (Portsmouth #986) 

Her husband (1913 - 2004), a Navy veteran, remarried the following year, 
   to widow "Kitty" Catherine (LUTER) CUTCHINS.  They are buried in 
   Holly Lawn Cemetery, Suffolk. 
   Holly Lawn list, another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/hollyln.txt 


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