Southampton-Halifax County-Lynchburg City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Rawls, Ella S. Guthrie, 1964 

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ELLA SHIPMAN GUTHRIE RAWLS

   Mrs. Ella Guthrie Rawls, 74, died Monday afternoon in her home at Franklin.

   She was the wife of Dr. Joel C. Rawls and a daughter of James H. and Mrs. 
Lelia Wright Guthrie.

   Born in Lynchburg,* she lived here since 1912.

   She was a graduate of the old Woman's College of Richmond, now Westhampton 
College.

   She was a member of Franklin Baptist Church, was superintendent of its 
primary department in the Sunday school 25 years, a past president of the 
Women's Missionary Union, past superintendent of Baptist Blackwater 
Association, teacher of the King's Servant Sunday school class and past 
president of Franklin Garden Club.

   Besides her husband, surviving are three sisters, Mrs. Mamie Cloyd of 
Dublin, Mrs. Annie Ligon of Pamplin and Mrs. Frances Donley of Hobbs, N.M.; 
and two brothers, Fred O. Guthrie of Lynchburg and John R. Guthrie of 
Alexandria.

   A funeral service was held Wednesday at 11 a.m. in Poplar Spring Cemetery 
by the Rev. Ira D. Hudgins of Franklin Baptist Church and the Rev. C.G. 
Benner, assistant pastor.

   W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home was in charge.

   Pallbearers were S.W. Rawls Jr., Delaney Hingerty, James E. Rawls, Bruce 
Johnson, Jim Rawls, David Cloyd III, William Lyon and Richard Guthrie.


Ella Shipman (GUTHRIE; Mrs. Joel C.) RAWLS, formerly of Lynchburg, 
b. Halifax Co.,* d. 1 Jun 1964, at home, Franklin, age 74, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 107**), Franklin, 
   3 Jun 1964, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 4, 1964, Sect. I, p. 5 

**Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Dec. 5, 1968, p. 6) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/r420j7ob.txt 

*While she lived & married in Lynchburg, the record states she was born 
   in Halifax Co., not Lynchburg: 

Joel Cutchins Rawls, 27, single, b. Holland, Va., res. Crystal River Sta., 
   sn/o Robt. & Diana Rawls, Physician 
Ella Shipman Guthrie, 22, single, b. Halifax Co., Va., 
   dt/o Jas.H. & Lelia W. Guthrie 
m. 28 Jun 1911, Lynchburg, Va., by W.W. Hamilton 
(City of Lynchburg M.Reg. {BVS copy} 1911 #163) 


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