Southampton-Lancaster-Greensville County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Blythe, Edna Purcell, 1970 

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EDNA PURCELL BLYTHE

   A funeral service for Mrs. Edna Purcell Blythe was conducted Saturday at 2 
p.m. in W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home by the Rev. Robert D. Fridley. 
Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were Henry Patrick, Adolph Blythe, Buddy Wise, Lee Mosley, 
Eddie Byrd and Bobby Mosley.

   Mrs. Blythe, 88, died Wednesday in Southside Nursing Home after a long 
illness.

   A native of Lancaster County, she was the widow of Lee Butler Blythe and a 
daughter of Willie and Mrs. Rebecca Faircloth Purcell.

   She was a member of High Street United Methodist Church.

   Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. J.J. Mosley of Emporia, Mrs. Marshall 
Wise of Murfreesboro, N.C., Mrs. Evelyn Patrick of Baltimore, and Mrs. Roy 
Byrd of Remington; two sons, William Blythe of Franklin and Purcell Blythe of 
Whaleyville; 24 grandchildren and 33 great-grandchildren.


Edna (PURCELL; Mrs. Lee B.) BLYTHE, formerly of Franklin and Emporia, 
Lancaster Co. native, d. 30 Dec 1970, age 88, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 89*), Franklin, 
   2 Jan 1971, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 7, 1971, Section II, p. 8 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
    Poplar Spring list: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Nov. 18, 1954) is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b430l2ob.txt 


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