Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Brooks, Vassie Bradshaw, 1960 

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VASSIE BRADSHAW BROOKS

   COURTLAND - Mrs. Vassie Bradshaw Brooks, 77, died in her home Friday 
afternoon after an illness of several months.  She was the widow of James 
Robert Brooks and a daughter of George Washington Bradshaw and Mrs. Susie 
Whitfield Bradshaw of Southampton County.

   She was a member of Courtland Baptist Church and its Ladies Missionary 
Society.

   Surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Julia Dickens of Williamsburg and 
Mrs. Harvey Roberts and Mrs. R.W. Nixon of Courtland; three sons, James B. 
Brooks of Chevy Chase, Md., Davis Lee Brooks of Danville and Z.T. Brooks 
of Emporia; nine grandchildren; one great-grandchild; three sisters, Mrs. 
Millard R. Bryant of Courtland, Mrs. Paul T. Edwards of Boykins and Mrs. 
Herman Smith of Newsoms; one brother, Roy Bradshaw of Newsoms.

   A funeral service was held in Courtland Baptist Church Sunday at 2 p.m. 
by the pastor, the Rev. Robert Lee Bailey and the Rev. Tucker G. Humphries, 
pastor of Franklin Congregational Christian Church.  Burial was in Riverside* 
Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were Bynum Bryant, Gilbert Bryant, Leslie Bryant, W.B. Ellis, 
David Kitchen and Hersey Bradshaw.


Vassie (BRADSHAW; Mrs. James R.) BROOKS, 
d. 2 Dec 1960, at home, age 77, 
interred in Hollywood Cemetery*, Newsoms, 4 Dec 1960, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 8, 1960, Sect. 1, p. 8 

*Not in Riverside - she's buried in Hollywood Cemetery. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project,
   Hollywood list (N-8):
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/hollywd.txt 

That is confirmed by her D.Cert. #33487, which gives Newsoms Cemetery. 

Her father & step-mother are also buried there. (N-7) 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Oct. 13, 1955, I-8) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b620j10o.txt 

Her father's obits ("Tidewater News," Feb. 24 & Mar. 10, 1933) 
   are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b632g2ob.txt 

Her mother & maternal grandparents are buried in a 
   WHITFIELD family cemetery, near Newsoms. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 3 (III-29):
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol3.txt 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
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