Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Edwards, Mills C., 1968 

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MILLS CARLYLE EDWARDS 

   FRANKLIN - A funeral service for Mills Carlyle Edwards was conducted 
Friday, Oct. 18 at 2:30 p.m. in the W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Chapel 
by the Rev. Darden Battle and the Rev. Joseph R. Johnson.  Burial with 
Masonic Rites was held in Southampton Memorial Park.

   Pallbearers were R.H. Scarborough, Roy L. Sexton, J.L. Rideout, Tyler 
Edwards Jr., Marvin Porter, Mills R. Edwards, D.A. Gooden and Dr. E.L. Irving. 
Member of the Men’s Bible Class of Sycamore Baptist Church and Franklin Lodge 
Knights of Pythias were honorary pallbearers.

   Edwards, 56, a farmer, died Tuesday at 10 a.m. in Southampton Memorial 
Hospital after illness of many months.

   A native of Southampton County, he was a son of the late Tyler and Mrs. 
Junie Cobb Edwards and the husband of Mrs. Gladys Scarborough Edwards.

   He was a member of Sycamore Baptist Church, Franklin Masonic Lodge 151, 
Franklin Pythian Lodge 51, and Norfolk Khedive Shrine Temple.

   Besides his widow, surviving are a son, Mills Carlyle Edwards Jr. of the 
Navy; and a daughter, Miss Carolyn Paige Edwards, a sister, Mrs. Elizabeth 
Edwards Moody, and a brother, Clyde Tyler Edwards, all of Franklin.


Mills Carlyle EDWARDS, farmer, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 15 Oct 1968, Franklin, age 56, 
interred in Southampton Memorial Park (Masonic I, Plot 1*), 18 Oct 1968, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 21, 1968, p. 3 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Southampton Memorial Park list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/somempk.txt 


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