Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Branch, Bessie L., 1939 

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BESSIE LEE BRANCH

   Miss Bessie Branch, 47, died Tuesday morning at the home of Mr. and Mrs. 
M.C. Kitchen after a short illness with pneumonia.  She was the daughter of 
Mrs. Betty Joyner Branch and the late William Branch, of Southampton County. 
Miss Branch and her mother have made their home with Mr. and Mrs. Kitchen for 
the past 10 years.  She was a member of the Vincent Grove M.E. Church, near 
Capron.  She is survived by her mother, one brother, Robert F. Branch of 
Franklin community, and a number of nieces, nephews and cousins.

   Services were conducted from the chapel of the W.J.M. Holland and sons 
Funeral Home Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock by the Rev. B.B. Bland, assisted 
by the Rev. R.D. Stephenson.  The songs "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" and 
"The Old, Rugged Cross" were sung.  Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery. 
Pallbearers were Warren Kitchen, V.C. Lankford, W.M. Branch, Henry Comstock, 
Wesley Rose and N.P. Joyner.


Bessie Lee BRANCH, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 14 Feb 1939, at home, age 47, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 86A*), Franklin, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 17, 1939, p. 5 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 


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