Southampton-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Blythe, Tillie Morris, 1980 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ TILLIE MORRIS BLYTHE FRANKLIN - Funeral services for Tillie Morris Blythe, 52, were held Wednesday in Wright Funeral Home, Franklin, by the Rev. Jessie Jones. Burial was in Poplar Spring cemetery. Blythe died Monday in Leigh Memorial Hospital, Norfolk. She was a native of Carrsville and the wife of Dempsey Blythe and a daughter of Mrs. Grace Nelson* of Suffolk. She was a Baptist. Other survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Linda Blythe Bowers of Courtland; four sisters, Mrs. Grover Barrett, Mrs. Edna Jernigan, and Mrs. Lakie Babb of Suffolk, and Mrs. Sue McClenny of Salem, Va.; and two brothers, James Morris of Suffolk and Johnnie Nelson of Jacksonvillle, N.C. Tillie (MORRIS; Mrs. Dempsey) BLYTHE, Carrsville native, d. 29 Dec 1980, Norfolk, age 52, interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 158**), Franklin, 31 Dec 1980, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 1, 1981 **Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt *Additional information: Tillie's D.Cert. gives dt/o William Morris & unnamed Nelson. "GRACE MORRIS NELSON" is buried in Meadowbrook Memorial Gardens, Suffolk. (Find a Grave Mem. #111005679) Gracie DUNNING, of Mitchells Twp., Bertie Co., NC, m. 11 Oct 1919 Wm. Grover H. MORRIS, in Aulander, Bertie Co. (Ancestry.com "NC Marriages") Grace was the dt/o James P. & Maggie (MORRIS) DUNNING. She 2m. John B. NELSON. (D.Cert. 84-004574) Tillie's sis Grover Junior MORRIS BARRETT Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b430t2ob.txt