Southampton-Amherst County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Railey, Mary R. Foushee, 1959 

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MARY ROBERTSON FOUSHEE RAILEY

  COMO, N.C. - Mrs. Mary Foushee Railey, 77, well-known resident of the Como 
community, died Wednesday afternoon at the Lane Nursing Home, Suffolk, after 
several months of failing health.

   She was the daughter of the Rev. Nathan B. Foushee and Mrs. Lelia Ann 
Robertson Foushee.  Her father was a Methodist minister in Southampton county 
for a number of years.

   She was a member of New Hope Methodist Church and its Woman’s Society of 
Christian Service.

   Surviving are her husband, Marvin J. Rainey; one son, M. Foushee Railey, 
both of Como, and one daughter, Mrs. Robert Akerman of Falls Church, Va.; five 
grandchildren; three sisters, Mrs. Bernice F. Bryant and Mrs. Eva F. Bryant, 
both of Sunbeam, Va., and Mrs. Emma F. Johnson of Norfolk, and nieces and 
nephews.

   Funeral services were conducted at the W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home 
in Franklin Friday at 2:30 p.m. by the Rev. H.W. Landis, pastor of the New 
Hope Methodist Church.  Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were R.B. Bryant, Elmo Whitley, Julian Britt, J.A. Whitley, 
Dillard Riddick, and P.D. Howell.


Mary Robertson (FOUSHEE; Mrs. Marvin J.) RAILEY, of Como, NC, 
b. Amherst Co., d. 15 Sep 1959, Suffolk, age 77, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 75*), Franklin, 
   17 Sep 1959, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Sep. 28, 1959, Sect. I, p. 4 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

Her father's obit ("Tidewater News," Nov. 16, 1934, pp. 1 & 8) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/f200n1ob.txt 

Her mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Jan. 16, 1931, p. 8) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/f200l1ob.txt 


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