Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....McDonald, Willie H. Williams, 1959 

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WILLIE HORTENSE WILLIAMS McDONALD

   Mrs. Willie Hortense Williams McDonald, 51, wife of John Birt McDonald, 
died late Tuesday afternoon in Raiford Memorial Hospital after a short 
illness.

   She was the daughter of Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Hudson Williams, who now 
resides in Greenville, N.C. and the late Robert D. Williams.

   A native of Swan Quarter, N.C., she had lived in Franklin the last 16 
years.  She formerly lived in Roanoke Rapids, N.C.

   She was a member of the Swan Quarter Presbyterian Church.

   Surviving besides her husband and mother, are one son, John Robert 
McDonald of Elizabeth City Beach, Shiloh, N.C., and three grandchildren; 
eight sisters, Mrs. Ina Mae Mincher of Franklin; Mrs. Owen Cahoon of 
Portsmouth; Mrs. Mary Bell Bugg of Roanoke Rapids; Mrs. Francis Woolard 
of Greenville, N.C., Mrs. Lucy Mallard of Williamston, N.C., Mrs. Marie 
Jenkins of Jacksonville, N.C., Mrs. Dottie Gray Brannar of Newport News 
and Mrs. Nelda Ray Hodges of Newfoundland; two brothers, Lloyd Williams 
of Greenville and Robert Williams of Idaho, and nieces and nephews.

   Funeral services were conducted at the W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral 
Home today at 4:30 p.m. by the Rev. John S. Steele, pastor of the Franklin 
Presbyterian Church.  Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were Wilford Davidson, Norman Edwards, Edward Tuck, Edward 
Gavin, Robert Gavin and C.J. Sykes.


Willie Hortense (WILLIAMS; Mrs. John B.) McDONALD, of Franklin, 
Swan Quarter, NC native, d. 20 Oct 1959, Franklin, age 51, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 119*), Franklin, 
   22 Oct 1959, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 22, 1959, Sect. I, p. 8 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 


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