Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bland, Rosa P. Wilroy, 1919 

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ROSA WILROY BLAND

DEATH OF MRS. J.M. BLAND

   Mrs. Rosa Wilroy Bland, wife of Dr. J.M. Bland, died at the Sarah Leigh 
Hospital in Norfolk on Thursday, October 30, at the age of 35 years.

   The body was brought home Thursday night and interment was made in 
Beechwood cemetery Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock, in the presence of throngs 
of friends and relatives who had gathered to pay the last tribute of respect 
to one whom they loved so well. 

   Services were conducted at the grave by her pastor, Rev. Porter Hardy, 
assisted by Rev. E.F. Garner of Norfolk, Rev. W.H. Riddick of Capron, Rev. 
H.P. Dalton of the Baptist church, and Rev. F.R. Lee of the Episcopal church. 
Mr. Garner, one of her former pastors, paid a loving, personal tribute to her 
beautiful Christian character, saying among other things that  he had always 
found her "loyal and true as steel."  Her pastor also added his tribute to her 
life and character. 

   The pallbearers were; active, Dr. G.H. Musgrave, Dr. J.A. Grizzard, S.J. 
Myrick, B.F. Britt, R.C. Knight, J.J. Bristow, W.F. Williams and H.V. 
Thornton; honorary, E. Frank Story, H.B. McLemore, Jno. B. Darden, J. Dudley 
Woodard, W.J. Story, O.W. Gray, W.R. Moore, E.M.Hill, J.L. Leavitt, J.D. 
Ferguson, J.T. Griffin, C.F. Carlton, J.D. Hart, L.F. Powell, E.H. Grizzard, 
J.M. Hill, S.C. Draper, E.B. Prince, S.B. Drewry, W.D. Mannes, D.T. Beaton, 
Walter H. Britt, W.T. Carter, T.H. Porter, J.R. Person, W.T. Edwards, H.K. 
DeLoatche, A.M. Williams, F.A. Hines, Homer Draper, N.S. Beaton, Herman 
Drewry, Davis Edwards, Dayton Edwards, Roy Simmons, Dick Tompkins, C.B. Rock, 
C.D. Hill, Felton Draper, Fred Drewry, Leslie Draper, Olin Hines, Graham 
Carlton, Herman Carlton, Carroll Edwards. Beverly Gray, Godwin Draper, Linwood 
Drewry, Quinby Hines and Everett Bryant. 

   The love and sympathy of friends were attested by the greatest profusion of 
most beautiful flowers. 

   Mrs. Bland was the daughter of the late Jno. C. Wilroy of Driver, Nansemond 
County, Va. and is survived by her husband; three sisters, Mrs. A. P. Pope of 
Drewrville, and Misses Katherine and Marguerite Wilroy of Boykins; and five 
brothers, Jno F. and J.C. Wilroy of Driver, T.N. Wilroy of the Merchant 
Marines, now in Denmark, L.H. and J.L. Wilroy of U.S. Navy, the former 
stationed at Charleston, S.C. and the latter at Boston. 

   She was married on November 27, 1907, to Dr. J.M. Bland.  After spending 
one year in the home of his father at Shackleford's Va., Dr. Bland brought his 
beautiful young wife to Boykins to make their home and she at once won a place 
in all hearts.  Possessed of a charming personality and endowed with those 
feminine graces which make womanhood lovely, she became a general favorite. 
Of a truth it may be said that "everybody loved Rosa Bland."  To her husband 
she was helpful, faithful, loving and loyal, all that a woman could be.  When 
her mother died about five years ago she took into her heart and home her two 
young sisters and lavished upon them such loving care that they felt toward 
her as if she were their mother rather than sister. 

   She was an earnest, consecrated Christian, holding her membership with the 
Methodist church where for several years she was a teacher in the Sunday 
school, president of the Parsonage Society and an active member of the Woman's 
Missionary Society.  But her usefulness was not confined to the activities of 
her church.  Wherever there was need of service she was ready to respond.  She 
was for a long time president of the W.C.T.U., was chairman of the Red Cross 
and of the local branch of the "Fatherless Children of France."  Her time, 
talents and influence were given without stint to the moral and spiritual 
uplift of her community.  From a human standpoint we feel that we cannot give 
her up, yet we do not question the wisdom of Him who has taken her from a life 
of physical pain to the home of "Many Mansions," where she will wear a crown 
set with jewels crystalized from the good deeds of her noble Christian Life. 


Rosa Pearl (WILROY; Mrs. James M.) BLAND, 
b. 29 Sep 1884, Driver, Nansemond Co., d. 30 Oct 1919, Norfolk, 
interred in Beechwood Cemetery (Annex 1, Section A, Plot 1*), Boykins, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 7, 1919, pp. 1 & 8 

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

Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 25743 (Norfolk #1608) 

Her husband's obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," Sep. 12, 1958, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b453j1ob.txt 

Her parents, John C. & Catherine H. (CAPPS) WILROY, are buried in a WILROY 
   family cemetery, off Nansemond River Dr. 
   Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 3 (NV-III-25), 
   an extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/liberty.txt 


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