Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Branch, Nell R. Rose, 1947 

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NELL ROSE BRANCH

TOWN IS SADDENED BY YOUNG MOTHER’S DEATH

   After an illness which her physicians regarded from the outset as 
practically hopeless, Mrs. Nell Rose Branch, wife of R.C. Branch, Jr.*, died 
at 9:15 o’clock Tuesday morning in Raiford Memorial Hospital.  Her condition 
had been desperate for about ten days, but her will to live had postponed the 
inevitable end.  At the time of her death she was thirty-one years of age.

   Mrs. Branch a native of Franklin, was the daughter of Mrs. Annie Laurie 
Rose and the late C. Ryland Rose of Franklin.  She was educated in the 
Franklin schools, graduated from the high school in May, 1933.  An active 
member of the Franklin Baptist Church, she served in the primary department of 
the Sunday school and participated in the activities of the Stephenson Circle 
of the Woman’s Missionary Society.

   Besides her husband and mother she is survived by a son, R.C. Branch, 3rd, 
and an infant daughter, Ellen Nell Branch; two sisters, Mrs. C.H. Smith of 
Richmond and Mrs. Leary S. Appleby of New London, Conn.; a number of other 
relatives and a host of friends who mourn their loss.

   Funeral services for Mrs. Branch were conducted from the Franklin Baptist 
Church on Wednesday afternoon by the pastor, Rev. Randolph Gregory, assisted 
by Rev. R.D. Stephenson of Portsmouth, a former pastor.  Interment was in 
Poplar Spring Cemetery.

   The pallbearers were William Bradshaw, Herbert Edwards, Winston Browne, Sam 
Powell, Vernon Scott, J.E. Wright, David Lawrence and J. Fenton Matthews.

   Active pallbearers were Frank Howell, Herman Howell, Carl Steinhardt, E.K. 
Brinkley and E.P. Jones of Franklin, and R.T. Tompkins, J.S. Holland, and A.L. 
Brown of Suffolk.


Nell R. (ROSE; Mrs. Robert C. Jr.) BRANCH, 
Franklin native, d. 10 Jun 1947, Franklin, age 62, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 81*), Franklin, 
   11 Jun 1947, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 13, 1947, p. 8 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS}, Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

Additional information: 

Her parents are buried in Poplar Spring- Section 2, Plot 50: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

Her father's obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 30, 1928, p. 1) is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/r200r2ob.txt 

Her mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Apr. 24, 1980, p. 12A) is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/r200r2ob.txt 


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