Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Collier, Mary S., 1969 

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MARY SHEPARD COLLIER

   A funeral service for Mary Shepard Collier, 13, who was killed Wednesday 
when the car in which she was riding collided with a tractor-trailer on 
U.S. 58 half a mile west of Franklin, was conducted Saturday at 11 a.m. in 
W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home by the Rev. Darden Battle and the Rev. 
Thomas Mabe.  Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were Aubrey Lankford, Calvin Burgess, Franklin Whitfield, 
Larry Powers, Sam Purviance, Barham Dodson, Randolph Denson and Lee Walkers.

   Dorothy Ione Campbell of Route 3, Franklin, 16, was listed in satisfactory 
conduction in Southampton Memorial Hospital with head injuries.

   State Police investigating the accident said the car, driven by Miss 
Campbell, was crossing U.S. 58, heading south from Va. 688, when it was 
struck broadside by the truck, which was headed east on U.S. 58.

   Police said the tractor-trailer was driven by James E. Jones, 30, of 
Route 2, Stony Creek.  No charges had been placed Wednesday night.

   Miss Collier, a native of Franklin, was a daughter of William A. and Mrs. 
Brownie Johnson Collier.

   She was a senior choir member of Sycamore Baptist Church.  She was in the 
eighth grade at Franklin High School and a member of the school band.

   She was a member of Windsor Chapter of Sing-Out America, and Cadet Troop 
756 of Girl Scouts.

   Besides her parents, she is survived by a brother, Joseph Howell Collier 
of the home.


Mary Shepard "Shep" COLLIER, 8th-grade Franklin H.S. student, 
daughter of William A. & Ruth "Brownie" (JOHNSON) COLLIER, 
Franklin native, d. in wreck, 15 Jan 1969, ½ mile west of Franklin, age 13, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 245*), Franklin, 
   18 Jan 1969, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 20, 1969, p. 9 

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


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