Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Wilkins, Ruby N. Worley, 1972 

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RUBY NELL WORLEY WILKINS 

    MRS. RUBY WILKINS 

  CYPRESS CHAPEL - Mrs. Ruby Nell Wilkins, 54, died early Sunday in Louise 
Obici Memorial Hospital, Suffolk, after a long illness. 

  A native of Bluefield, W.Va., she was the wife of James Henry Wilkins and a 
daughter of Mrs. Hattie S. Worley and the late Gilbert Perry Worley. 

  She was a member of Assembly of God Church, Whaleyville, and its Adult 
Sunday School Class. 

  Besides her husband and mother, surviving are four sons, James P. Wilkins of 
Jessip, Md., Ernest C. Wilkins of Suffolk, J. Ronny Wilkins of Yuma, Ariz., 
and Herman W. Wilkins of Nansemond County; four daughters, Mrs. Glenn D. 
Bounds of DeKalb, Miss., Mrs. Noah Jones of Washington, Mrs. Johnnie Morgan of 
Nansemond County, and Miss Rose Marie Wilkins of Suffolk; two sisters, Mrs. 
B.F. Stafford of Johnson City, Tenn., and Mrs. Ernest W. Clarke of Seaford; 
and 15 grandchildren. 

  A funeral service will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. in R.W. Baker Co. Funeral 
Home by the Rev. Ralph Rawls and Dr. R.E. Brittle.  Burial will be in Cypress 
Chapel Church cemetery. 


Ruby Nell (WORLEY; Mrs. James Henry) WILKINS, 
b. 17 Dec 1917, Mercer Co., WV, d. 13 Feb 1972, Suffolk, 
interred in Cypress Chapel Christian Church Cemetery*, 16 Feb 1972, 
"Suffolk News-Herald," Vol. 50, No. 38, Mon., Feb. 14, 1972, p. 8 

*Additional information: 

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

Photos of her gravestone - added by Emily & Jake Dog - are posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #31279631. 

Her widowed husband, an Army veteran of WW-II, remarried twice, but is buried 
   with Ruby.  His obits appeared in the "Suffolk News-Herald," Aug. 18 & 22, 
   p. 2. 

Birthplace from Ancestry.com WV B.Index. 

D.Cert. 72-006616 also gives her father as Gilbert Perry. 

Her parents, Gilbert Peery & Hattie Stras (MITCHELL WYRICK) WORLEY, are buried 
   in Maple Hill Cemetery, Bluefield, Tazewell Co., VA. 


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