Nansemond County-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Wills, M. Eleanor Davis, 1951 

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Rites Tomorrow For Mrs. Wills, 63 

  Funeral services for Mrs. Eleanor Davis Wills, 63, who died at a local 
hospital Sunday morning at 5:15 o'clock after a short illness, will be 
conducted tomorrow 3:30 p.m. at the R.W. Baker Funeral Home by the Rev. 
Julian S. Hopkins and the Rev. Duane N. Vore. 

  Survivors include her husband, John R. Wills, Sr., of this city; two sons, 
John R. Wills, Jr., and Gordon B. Wills, of this city; two grandchildren, 
John R. Wills, III, and Beverly B. Wills; her mother, Mrs. R.H. Powell, of 
this city; one brother, E.B. Davis, of Norfolk; a half-brother, Grady E. 
Powell, of Pocomoke City, Md.; a half-sister, Mrs. Clinton O. Bradshaw, of 
this city; several nieces and nephews. 

  She was a member of the First Baptist Church. 

  Interment will be in Cedar Hill cemetery. 


Mary Eleanor (DAVIS BARNES; Mrs. John Ramey Sr.) WILLS, 
b. 28 Jan 1888, Norfolk, d. 13 May 1951, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block I, Lot 63*), Suffolk, 15 May 1951, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 29, No. 114, Mon., May 14, 1951, p. 3 

*Additional information: 

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

A photo of her gravestone - added by Steve Poole - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #135225073. 

Her son John Goode BARNES Jr. was killed on D-Day.  He was re-interred in 
   the same lot, 8 Feb 1948. 

Her mother, Matilda "Tilly" (TRIPPLE DAVIS; Mrs. Richard Henry) POWELL, 
   is buried in Block O, Lot 8. 

D.Cert. 10959 (Suffolk #171) gives b. 14 Apr 1887 ["1883" struck]. 

Her mother's obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," Dec. 17, 1951, p. 3) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/p400m13o.txt 


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