Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Owen, Mary V. Councill, 1960 

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MARY VIRGINIA COUNCILL OWEN

MRS. MARY C. OWEN BURIED WEDNESDAY

   SEDLEY - Mrs. Mary Virginia Councill Owen, 58, a well-known resident and 
retired postmistress, died at her home Monday night after an illness of many 
months.

   She was the wife of Russell Wright Owen and the daughter of the late John 
R. and Annie Lee Councill of Southampton County.

   She was a member of the Grace Memorial Methodist Church and had been very 
active in all church work prior to her illness.

   Surviving besides her husband are one daughter, Miss Barbara Ann Owen of 
Richmond; one sister, Mrs. Paul Dyal of New York City; a stepmother, Mrs. 
Minnie Councill of Chase City, and a number of nieces and nephews.

   Funeral services were held from the Holland Funeral Chapel, Franklin, at 
2:30 p.m. Wednesday by the Rev. E. Stephen Babcock, pastor of the Grace 
Memorial Methodist Church.  Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery, Franklin.

   Pallbearers were Kenneth Howell, Harry E. Jones, L.E. Bailey, Samuel 
Turner, Hubert Beale, Jr., Emmett Davis, Frank Davis and Robert J. Hotchkiss.


Mary Virginia (COUNCILL; Mrs. Russell W.) OWEN, retired postmistress, 
d. 8 Feb 1960, at home, Sedley, age 58, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 41B*), Franklin, 
   10 Feb 1960, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 11, 1960, Section 1, p. 4 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project,
   Poplar Spring list:
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

Her husband's obit ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," Oct. 7, 1984, B-18) 
   is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/o500r1ob.txt 


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