Southampton-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Rawls, Dr. Gavin, 1922 

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GAVIN RAWLS

DR. GAVIN RAWLS DIES SUDDENLY AT CARRSVILLE

   The news of the sudden death of Dr. Gavin Rawls at his home in Carrsville 
last night, which reached Franklin this morning, has caused universal regret 
here where Dr. Rawls was widely known and highly esteemed. The announcement of 
his death coming to us at the hour of going to press, a more comprehensive 
account of his life and work must necessarily wait until the next issue.

   Dr. Rawls was one of the best and most useful citizens of his county and of 
the State. He had been Superintendent of Schools of Isle of Wight County for 
36 years, and was prominent in the Baptist Church and in all other meritorious 
public service. He is survived by his widow, and by four children, Dr. Julian 
Rawls and Dr. Edward Rawls of Norfolk, Mrs. W.A. Biggs of Baltimore and Miss 
Edna Rawls of Carrsville.

   Funeral services will be held from Beaver Dam Baptist Church Saturday 
afternoon at 2:30 o’clock interment following in the church cemetery.

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GAVIN RAWLS

EDITORIAL BY THE DR. R.H. PITT

   We print elsewhere in this issue Brother Thorburn Clark's just and 
admirable tribute to the late Dr. Gavin Rawls.  Death came to him while he was 
still to all outward seeming in full ripened strength with a prospect of years 
of growing usefulness.  Far back in the seventies he was our classmate and 
friend at Richmond College.  In the long stretch of intervening years our 
association with his has not been as close as we wished it to be.  He was a 
busy man, occupied with his professional and other responsible tasks, devoted 
to his church and District Association and community but rarely came to our 
General Association and hardly ever to the Southern Convention.  Though 
deprived of this sort of personal contact with him we always knew that he was 
there where his duties challenged him, that he was the friend of every good 
enterprise, that he could be counted on whenever he was needed.  Now, alas, 
he has vanished and the grop of veteran who were comrades in that far off day 
and have maintained the spirit of comradeship after some fashion ever since, 
are saddened by his departure. To his family, his friends, his church, his 
county, we give assurance of our deep sympathy with them in their irreparable 
loss.  We shall not soon look upon his like again.


[Dr. Gavin RAWLS, 35-year Superintendant of Isle of Wight Co. schools, 
 d. 29 Sep 1922, at home, Carrsville, age 66, 
 interred in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery*, near Franklin, 30 Sep 1922, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), obit, Sep. 29, 1922, p. 1; 
 "The Religious Herald" (Richmond, VA), editorial, Oct. 19, 1922] 

[*Isle of Wight County Historical Society Grave Site Survey Task Force list: 
 http://www.iwchs.com/Documents/Beaverdam_Beaverdam%20Rd_Cemetery.doc] 

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