Southampton-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Billups, Mary L. Luter, 1960 

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MARY LEE LUTER BILLUPS

   Mrs. Mary Luter Billups, 59, of Black Creek died at Obici Memorial 
Hospital, Suffolk, Monday night after an illness of several weeks.

   She was the widow of Joseph Lang Billups and a daughter of William Thomas 
Luter and the late Mrs. Josephine Powell Luter of Isle of Wight County.  She 
was a member of Black Creek Baptist church and its Woman’s Missionary Society.

   Besides her father, surviving are one son, Thornton Billups of Franklin; 
one daughter, Mrs. Audrey Butler of Carrsville; three sisters, Mrs. W.E. 
Garner of Ivor, Mrs. J.L. Beasley of Wakefield and Mrs. R.L. Sadley Jr., of 
Zuni and two brothers, E.M. Luter and W.N. Luter, both of Zuni, a number of 
nieces and nephews.

   A funeral service was conducted at W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home 
Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. by the Rev. Len B. Allen, Jr., pastor of Black Creek 
Baptist Church, and the Rev. William H. Corbitt of Suffolk.  Burial was in 
Black Creek Church cemetery.

   Pallbearers were Ocie Beale, Earl Drewry, J.B. Beale, T.J. Blythe, C.C. 
Edwards, Charles Bulls, Roland Whitley and Robert Lowe.


Mary Lee (LUTER; Mrs. Joseph L.) BILLUPS, of Black Creek, 
d. 4 Apr 1960, Suffolk, age 59, 
interred in Black Creek Baptist Church Cemetery*, 6 Apr 1960, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 7, 1960, Sect. I, p. 4 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project,
   Black Creek list (BC-3):
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/blkcrk.txt 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Jan. 15, 1959, I-3) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b412j1ob.txt 

Her parents are buried in Hillcrest Cemetery, Wakefield. 


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