Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Brantley, Elizabeth I. Ellis, 1959 

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ELIZABETH IRENE ELLIS BRANTLEY 

   Mrs. Lizzie Ellis Brantley, 57, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. 
John Cross, Jr., 602 Maryland Ave., Suffolk, Tuesday night.

   A native of Southampton County, she was a daughter of James L. and Annie 
Scarbrough Ellis and a member of the Black Creek Baptist Church.  She was 
the wife of Richard O. Brantley.

   Besides her husband and daughter, Mrs. Cross, she is survived by a second 
daughter, Miss Irene Brantley of Franklin; six sons, Clarence Owen Brantley 
of Newport News, Marvin E. Brantley, Calvin Brantley and Floyd Brantley of 
Franklin, Alfred Brantley, USN, of Panama, and Richard A. Brantley, USS 
Boston; her stepmother, Mrs. Etta Ellis of Zuni; a sister, Mrs. Hazel Vasser 
of California; two brothers, John Ellis of Newport News and Lyman Ellis of 
Bristol, Nenn.; three half-sisters, Mrs. Bertha Brown and Mrs. Ruby Beale of 
Zuni and Mrs. Myrtle Raiford of Franklin; three half-brothers, Carlton Ellis 
and Walter Ellis of Zuni and Joseph Ellis of Norfolk; and four grandchildren.

   The body was taken to the W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home.

   Funeral services are pending until the arrival of the son from Panama.


"Lizzie" Elizabeth Irene (ELLIS; Mrs. Richard O.) BRANTLEY, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 23 Jun 1959, at daughter's home, Suffolk, age 57, 
interred in Millfield Baptist Church Cemetery*, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 18, 1959, Sect. I, p. 4 

*Her parents are also buried there. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 1 (I-15 & -18): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol1.txt 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," June 18, 1970) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b653r7ob.txt 


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and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. 

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