Nansemond County-Portsmouth City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Reel, Jesse L., 1960 

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JESSE LELAND REEL

   PORTSMOUTH - A funeral service was held today (Thursday) at Pentecostal 
Holiness Church, Deep Creek at 2 p.m. for Jesse Leland Reel, 61, who died 
Monday in a Portsmouth hospital after a short illness.

   He was the father of Jesse W. Reel, administer of Raiford Memorial 
Hospital, Franklin.

   Son of George Whitfield and Mrs. Lula Clifton Reel, he was the husband of 
Mrs. Mary Blanche Griffin Reel.  He was a native of Bayboro, N.C. and has 
lived in this section the last 55 years.

   He was a member of Deep Creek Pentecostal Holiness Church.

   He was retired last Friday as a leading man at Shop 31, Norfolk Naval 
Shipyard, after 30 years of service.

   Besides his wife, surviving are three daughters, Mrs. B.F. Pearson of 
Cradock, Mrs. N.E. Wilson of Portsmouth and Mrs. D.H. Wilkins of Silver 
Spring, Md.; six sons, Jesse W. Reel of Franklin, Luther M. Reel of 
Princess Anne County, James E. Reel of Deep Creek, Gene L. Reel of 
Charlotte, N.C., Jerry J. Reel, Army, California, and Harold W. Reel of 
Portsmouth; two brothers, George Albert Reel Sr. of Oak Grove, Norfolk 
County, and Marvin S. Reel of Corydan, Pa.; one sister, Mrs. Estelle R. 
Kaufman of Herfsville, N.J. and 11 grandchildren.

   Burial was in Holly Lawn Cemetery, Suffolk.


Jesse Leland REEL, just retired from Norfolk Naval Shipyard, 
Bayboro, NC native, d. 8 Aug 1960, Portsmouth, age 61, 
interred in Holly Lawn Cemetery (Sect. 10, Block X*), Suffolk, 11 Aug 1960, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 11, 1960, p. 5 

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


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