Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Spivey, E. Vance, 1939 

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VANCE SPIVEY RITES ARE HELD 

Crash Victim Buried At Cedar Hill, Rites At Baptist Church 

  Funeral services were held yesterday afternoon for Elmer Vance Spivey, 23, 
at the First Baptist Church, with the Rev. H.J. Goodwin and the Rev. R.E. 
Brittle conducting the rites.  Interment was in the Cedar Hill cemetery. 

  Mr. Spivey was killed in an automobile accident near Magnolia Tuesday 
morning. 

  A quartet composed of Mrs. L.I. Haggard, Mrs. Paul Rawles, J.N. Alexander, 
and William J. Work, accompanied by Mrs. Work at the piano, sang "Some Day the 
Silver Cord Will Break" and "Does Jesus Care."  Mr. Work sang a solo, "In the 
Land of Fadeless Day." 

  A pall of pink roses and Easter lilies covered the casket and there were 
many beautiful floral offerings.  Active pallbearers were: Roy Mizelle, Owen 
Parker, Irving Murden, Eugene Emory, William Howell, Marvin Stephenson, Rawles 
Privott, and James Boykin.  Members of the Young Men's Bible Class of the 
First Baptist Church, of which Mr. Spivey was a member, were honorary 
pallbearers. 


Elmer Vance SPIVEY, truck driver, 
b. 16 Oct 1916, Gates Co., NC, 
killed in truck crash 24 Oct 1939, near Magnolia, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block P, Lot 18*), Suffolk, 25 Oct 1939, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 17, No. 184, Thurs., Oct. 26, 1939, p. 6 

*Additional information: 

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

A photo of his gravestone - added by Steve Poole - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #96247364, which gives Section J. 

His parents, Joseph Anderson & Vanlieu (BUNCH) SPIVEY, are also buried there. 

D.Cert. 22808 (Sleepy Hole #275) gives his father as J.V. 

His father was murdered 11 Dec 1939 in his store in Suffolk during a robbery. 
   Coverage ("Suffolk News-Herald," Dec. 11-13, 1939, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/s110j7ob.txt 


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