Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Forbes, Mildred Morgan, 1970 

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MILDRED MORGAN FORBES 

   HOLLAND - A funeral service for Mrs. Mildred Morgan Forbes was conducted 
Monday at 3 p.m. in W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home, Franklin, by the Rev. 
Carl Ousley.  Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were Gene Morgan, William Morgan, Winston Vernalson, Jamie 
Forbes, Gordon Twine and H.R. Thomas.

   Mrs. Forbes, 83, died Friday in a nursing home.

    A native of Nansemond County, she was a daughter of Benjamin and Mrs. 
Dixie Griffith Morgan and the widow of Frederick Owen Forbes.

   She was a member of Holland Baptist Church and a former teacher of Ladies 
Adult Sunday School Class.  She was a charter member of Holland Women’s Club 
and a former member of Parent Teacher Association.

   She pioneered rural electrification in Holy Neck District of Nansemond 
County and taught school in Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia.

   She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. S. Womack Lee of Holland; two sons, 
Frederick Benjamin Forbes of Stony Creek and Dozier McDonald Forbes of New 
York; a stepson, Andrew Lee Forbes of Norfolk; a brother, Benjamin Floyd 
Morgan of Stony Creek; seven grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.


Mildred (MORGAN; Mrs. Frederick O.) FORBES, former VA, NC & GA teacher, 
Nansemond Co. native, d. 21 Aug 1970, age 83, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Sect. 2, Plot 13B*), Franklin, 24 Aug 1970, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 27, 1970 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

Her husband's obit ("The Tidewater News," June 29, 1966, p.6) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/f612f1ob.txt 


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