Southampton County-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Fiers, Elvin L., 1951 

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ELVIN LOUIS FIERS

   Elvin Louis Fiers, 72, retired farmer and business man, died in a Norfolk 
hospital at 11:10 o'clock Tuesday morning November 13, after an illness of 
several weeks.  He had been a resident of Norfolk for the past eight years, 
making his home at 219 West 20th Street. He had worked for the Life Insurance 
Company of Virginia, the Provident Mutual Life Insurance Company, and the 
Alfred Haskell Furniture Company as a salesman. 

   A member of Epworth Methodist Church and the Wesleyman Bible Class, he was a 
son of the late Richmond T. Fiers and Mrs. Annie Louise Thorpe Fiers of 
Southampton County.  Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Mabel Elliott Fiers; and 
three sisters, Mrs. Carrie Moore of Wyoming, Del., Mrs. F.E. Everett of Sunbeam 
and Mrs. H.R. Bishop of Handsom. 

   Funeral services for Mrs. Fiers were conducted at the Mt. Horeb Methodist 
Church, this county, on Thursday afternoon at 1:30 o'clock by Rev. Joseph S. 
Johnston, D.D., pastor of Epworth Methodist Church, assisted by Rev. R.B. 
Moore, pastor of Mt. Hebron Church, and Rev. Harry B. Eaton of Richmond. Mr. 
Williams of the Wesley Men's Bible Class, accompanied by Miss Juliette Barrett 
at the piano, sang "In the Garden" and "Sunrise". 

   The casket was covered with a double spray of white chrysanthemums and red 
rosebuds.  There were numerous other floral offerings. 

   Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery, the pallbearers being J.S. Bryant, 
Roland Eaton, J.N. Ferguson, D.M. Marshall, Lloyd L. Shumadine, Paul Smith and 
R. Sam White. 


Elvin Louis FIERS, of Norfolk, formerly of Sunbeam, 
retired farmer and business man, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 13 Nov 1951, Norfolk, age 72, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 75*), Franklin, 
   15 Nov 1951, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 23, 1951 

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

His widow's obits ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," Dec. 9, 1959, p. 16, and 
   "Tidewater News," Dec. 17, 1959, Sect. II, p. 4) are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/f620m1ob.txt 

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," Feb. 4, 1921, p. 1), 
   with his marriage record appended, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/f620r1ob.txt 


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