Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Marks, Bessie E. Warthan, 1981 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ BESSIE ESTELLE MARKS COURTLAND - Funeral services for Bessie Estelle Marks, 96, were held Saturday in Capron cemetery by the Rev. Van E. Cash. Echols Funeral Home had charge. Pallbearers were grandsons of the deceased. The widow of Aubrey P. Marks died Thursday in Southampton Memorial Hospital. She was a native of Southampton County and a member of Vincent Grove Methodist Church. Survivors include two daughters, Carrie M. Turner of Capron and Virginia M. Fink of Hopewell; a son, Paul W. Marks of Courtland; two sisters, Mary W. Johnson of Conway, N.C., and Bernice W. Taylor of Suffolk; 10 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and eight great-great-grandchildren. Bessie Estelle (WARTHAN; Mrs. Aubrey P. Sr.) MARKS, Southampton Co. native, d. 26 Mar 1981, Franklin, age 96, interred in Capron Cemetery*, 28 Mar 1981, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 30, 1981, p. 9 *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Capron list (C-26): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/capron.txt Her father & mother are buried in a WARTHAN family cemetery, Capron. Photos of their markers are posted with their Find a Grave Memorials, #36404747 & #36404696. 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/m620b1ob.txt