Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Owens, Elizabeth McCoy, 1995 

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Elizabeth McCoy Owens

  BOYKINS - Elizabeth McCoy Owens, 77, died Monday. Feb. 6, 1995 at Courtland 
Nursing Home, Courtland. 

  Born in Halifax County, N.C. she was the widow of John Simon Owens.  She was 
a member and taught Sunday School at Boykins United Methodist Church and was a 
member of the Tarrara Woman's Club.  She was the daughter of the late Fred and 
Ida Sykes McCoy. 

  She is survived by her son, Dick Owens of Nashville, Tn.; two sisters, Edna 
M. Ewald of Norfolk and Mildred M. Minton, Franklin; three brothers, Herman 
McCoy of Boykins, Cecil McCoy of Aulander, N.C. and Harold McCoy of Ahoskie, 
N.C.; and three grandchildren. 

  A funeral service was held Thursday, Feb. 9 at 2 p.m. in Boykins United 
Methodist Church by the Rev. Robert Gochenour.  Burial was in Beechwood 
Cemetery, Boykins.  Purviance Funeral Home, Boykins Chapel handled 
arrangements. 

  Memorial donations may be made to the Boykins Volunteer Rescue Squad or to 
the church.


Elizabeth (McCOY; Mrs. John Simon) OWENS, 
b. 26 Jan 1918, Halifax Co., NC, d. 6 Feb 1995, Courtland, 
interred in Beechwood Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 203*), Boykins, 9 Feb 1995, 
"Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 76, No. 7, Feb. 15, 1995, p. 6 

*Her parents are also buried there. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} 
   Cemetery Project, Beechwood list:
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/beechwd.txt 

Her in-laws, Reuben W. & Fannie E. (DAUGHTREY) OWENS, are buried in 
   a DAUGHTREY family cemetery, Barnes Rd., Suffolk. 
   Nansemond Co. Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 2 (NV-II-19), 
   an extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project:
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/nanvol2.txt 


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