Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bess, Ralph C., 1959 

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RALPH CLIFTON BESS 

   Ralph Clifton Bess, 58, died suddenly Saturday afternoon at the home of 
his sister, Mrs. J.K. Vann, near Franklin.

   He was the husband of Mrs. Jennie Donovan Bess, and the son of the late 
Alonzo and Mrs. Clara O. Britt Bess of Hertford County, N.C.  He was a 
retired employee of the Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp.  A native of Hertford 
County, N.C., he had resided in Franklin for the last 12 years.  He was a 
member of the Beaver Dam Baptist Church.

   Besides his wife and sister, he is survived by two sons, Raymond D. and 
Julian R. Bess of Franklin; three daughters, Mrs. Pearl B. Reynolds of 
Norfolk; Mrs. Bernice B. Avrigian of Philadelphia, Pa. and Miss Judy L. 
Bess of Franklin; one brother, B.C. Bess of Murfreesboro, N.C.; three 
sisters, Mrs. W.C. Stradley of Franklin; Mrs. Benjamin Rhodes of Washington, 
D.C., and Mrs. R.E. Holt of San Jose, Calif., and seven grandchildren.

   Funeral services were conducted at the W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral 
Home Monday at 2:30 p.m., by the Rev. Edwin C. Thornton, pastor of Beaver 
Dam Baptist Church.  Burial was in the family plot near Murfreesboro.*

   Pallbearers were Willie Tedder, Chester Piersa, Paul Gerald, R.W. McCoy, 
J.H. Duke and Harold Morris.


Ralph Clifton BESS, of Franklin, retired Union Bag-Camp employee, 
Hertford Co., NC native, d. 31 Jan 1959, at sister's home, near Franklin, age 58, 
interred in Southampton Memorial Park (Christus II, Plot 91*), 2 Feb 1959, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 12, 1959, Sect. II, p. 8 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Southampton Memorial Park list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/somempk.txt 


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