Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pierce, Mary L. Francis, 1967 

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MARY LEE FRANCIS MOUNTFORD PIERCE

   SEDLEY - A funeral service for Mrs. Mary Lee Francis Pierce was conducted 
Monday at 3 p.m. in Grace Memorial Methodist Church by the Rev. William Gower. 
Burial was in Rosemont Cemetery.

   The body was taken from W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home, Franklin, to 
the church at 2 p.m.

   Pallbearers were Edward Simms, Douglas Simms, Robert Gates, Russell Harris, 
Billy Jones and Joseph Gardner.

   Mrs. Pierce, 76, died Saturday morning in Southampton Memorial Hospital.

   A native of Northampton County, N.C., she was a daughter of Carter and Mrs. 
Roberta Johnson Francis and the widow of Lewis L. Pierce.  She was a member of 
Grace Memorial Methodist Church.

   She is survived by seven daughters, Mrs. Marvin Simms, Mrs. E.B. 
McClanahan, and Mrs. Sarah Hoower of Sedley, Mrs. Linwood Gates of Suffolk, 
Mrs. W.R. Harris of Norfolk, and Mrs. Avery Carruth of Houston, Tex.; Mrs. 
J.E. Smith of Houston; a stepdaughter, Mrs. Floyd Jones of Norfolk; two 
stepsons, Lee Pierce of Chapel Hill, and Thurman Pierce of High Point, N.C., a 
sister, Mrs. C.H. Speight of Roanoke Rapids, N.C.; 11 grandchildren, and three 
great grandchildren.


Mary Lee (FRANCIS MOUNTFORD; Mrs. Lewis/Louis L.) PIERCE, 
Northampton Co., NC native, d. 8 Jul 1967, Franklin, age 76, 
interred in Rosemont Cemetery*, Sedley, 10 Jul 1967, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 13, 1967, p. 2 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
    Rosemont list (S-53): 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/rosemont.txt 


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