Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Atkins, Leola Blythe, 2000 

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LEOLA BLYTHE ATKINS 

  Leola Blythe Atkins, 93, died Dec. 3, 2000, at her residence at the Village 
At Woods Edge. 

  Mrs. Atkins was a native of Southampton County, a daughter of the late 
Robert and Nettie Joyner Blythe and the wife for 68 years of the late William 
Graham Atkins.  Mrs. Atkins was an active member of the Franklin Community in 
earlier years working with the Altar Guild of Emmanuel Episcopal Church and as 
a receptionist/telephone operator at the First Raiford Memorial Hospital.  She 
attended St. Lukes Episcopal Church in Courtland in recent years.  She was a 
member of the Order of the Eastern Star, Chapter 128, until a heart attack 
curtailed many of her outside activities.  In the latter years, Mrs. Atkins 
was a resident of The Village At Woods Edge.  She remained active in outlook 
and activities, taking exercises each morning, working on crafts and completed 
a computer class prior to her 92nd birthday in order to send and receive 
e-mails from her grandchildren and great-grandchildren scattered throughout 
the world. 

  Survivors include two loving daughters, Jean Atkins Beamon and her husband 
Walter of Virginia Beach, and Barbara Atkins Scott of Charleston, S.C.; eight 
grandchildren, Candace B. Moore and her husband Jack of Sofia, Bulgaria, W. 
Tucker Beamon and his wife Donna of Virginia Beach, W. Bradley Beamon and his 
wife Gail of Atlanta, Ga., Norman Bruce Scott and his wife Cheryl of Dacula, 
Ga., John McP. Scott of Greenville, S.C., William A. Scott and his wife Helen 
of John's Island, S.C., Steven A. Scott and his wife Pam of Walhalla, S.C., 
and Kathryn S. Powell of Columbia, S.C.; and 10 great-grandchildren, Brittany 
Moore, Elizabeth Moore, Will Beamon, Amanda Beamon, Jason Bittner, Douglas 
Bittner, Caitlin Scott, Gifford Scott, Sarah Helen Scott, Lorie Stubblefield 
and Ryland Powell; and numerous nieces and nephews.  Other survivors include 
her sisters, Kate B. Harrison Saunders, Bernice B. Dunn and her husband 
Claude, Rebie B. Harrison, Frances B. Clements and her husband Maurice, 
Marjorie B. Cobb and her husband Herman.  She was predeceased by brothers 
Claude, Bernard, Herman, Percy, Ashby, Harwood and Hugh Blythe. 

  A funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday in Wright Funeral Home with 
the Rev. James W. Browder III officiating.  The burial will be at Poplar 
Spring Cemetery.  The family will receive friends at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the 
Village At Woods Edge and suggests that memorials be made to a favorite 
charity. 


Leola (BLYTHE; Mrs. William G.) ATKINS, of Franklin, 
b. 26 Sep 1907, Southampton Co., d. 3 Dec 2000, Franklin, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 12*), Franklin, 7 Dec 2000, 
"Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Dec. 5, 2000, p. B9 

*Her parents are buried in Annex 2, Plot 189. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

Her father's obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 27, 1958, Sect. I, p. 8) 
   is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b430j5ob.txt 

Her mother's obit ("Tidewater News," May 28, 1948, p. 8), 
   with their marriage record appended, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b430n1ob.txt 


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