Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Forbes, Fred O., 1967 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ FRED O. FORBES HOLLAND - A funeral service for Fred O. Forbes, 96, of Holland, was held at 4 p.m. Monday in the chapel of the W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home by the Rev. Carl Lee Ousley, pastor of Holland Baptist Church. Pallbearers were Jamie Forbes, Harvey Councill, Robert Eubank, Gordon Tyne, John Henry Powell and James Holt. Deacons of Holland Baptist Church served as honorary pallbearers. ****************************************************************************** FREDERICK OWEN FORBES HOLLAND - A funeral service for Fred O. Forbes was conducted Monday at 4 p.m. in W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home, Franklin by the Rev. Carl Lee Ousley. Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery. Pallbearers were Jamie Forbes, Harvey Councill, Robert Eubank, Gordon Twyne, John Henry Bower, James Hope. Honorary pallbearers were deacons of the Holland Baptist Church. Forbes, 96, retired farmer and lumberman, died Saturday night in his home. A native of Bertie County, N.C., he was the husband of Mrs. Mildred Morgan Forbes and a son of Tullie and Mrs. Martha Darden Forbes. He was member of Holland Baptist Church. Besides his widow, survivors include four sons, Edward Paul Forbes and Andrew Lee Forbes of Norfolk, Fred B. Forbes of Stony Creek and Mack Forbes of New York; and a daughter, Mrs. S. Womack Lee of Holland, seven grandchildren; and five great grandchildren. Frederick "Fred" Owen FORBES, retired farmer and lumberman, b. 7 Feb 1871, Bertie Co., NC, d. 24 Jun 1967, at home, Holland, interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 13B*), Franklin, 26 Jun 1967, "Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 45, No. 154, Wed., June 28, 1967, p. 12; "Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Thurs., June 29, 1966, p. 6 *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt A photo of her gravestone - added by Carl Heckel - is posted with Find a Grave Memorial #43447549. D.Cert. 67-017615 His widow's obit ("Tidewater News," Aug. 27, 1970) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/f612m1ob.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/f612f1ob.txt