Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Carter, Dona E. Britt, 1955 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ DONA ESTELLE CARTER Mrs. Dona Estelle Carter, 71, wife of John David Carter of 707 Walnut St., died at her home Wednesday night, November 2, after an illness of many months. Mrs. Carter, a native of North Carolina*, had made her home in Franklin for the past 18 years. She was the daughter of the late William and Martha Whitley Britt of Hertford County, North Carolina, and a member of High Street Methodist Church, Franklin. Surviving, in addition to her husband, are one daughter, Mrs. H.J. Gibson, of Franklin, and one half-sister, Mrs. E.J. Railey, of Como, N.C. The body was taken to the W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home, where services will be conducted Friday at 2 p.m. by Rev. James W. Turner, pastor of High Street Methodist Church. Interment will be in Poplar Spring Cemetery. Dona Estelle (BRITT; Mrs. John D.) CARTER, d. 2 Nov 1955, at home, Franklin, age 71, interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 3, Section A, Plot 15A*), Franklin, 4 Nov 1955, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 3, 1955, Sect. I, p. 8 *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx3.txt *Her marriage record states she was born in Southampton Co. - JOHN DAVID CARTER, 25, S, [Hertford Co.] N.C., SO.CO., FARMER, S/O JOHN DAVID AND DELIA WHITLEY CARTER M. 04-11-1907 NEWSOMS, SO.CO., VA. BY REV. E.S. PIERCE DONA ESTELLE BRITT, 22, S, SO.CO., SO.CO., D/O WILLIAM AND MARTHA WHITLEY BRITT (Southampton Co. MB13:9; transcribed & annotated by Bruce Saunders: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/vitals/mb13pt.txt) Her husband's obit("Tidewater News," June 25, 1964, I-5) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c636j4ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c636d1ob.txt