Southampton-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Rawls, Owen R. Jr., 1980 

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OWEN ROBERT RAWLS, JR.

   Ivor - Funeral services for Owen Robert (Doodle) Rawls, 56, will be held 
Thursday at 2 p.m. in Purviance Funeral Chapel, Wakefield, by the Rev. James 
M. Hague.  Burial will be in Ivor Cemetery. 

   Pallbearers were; Peyton Kea, J.J. Bradshaw, J. Russell West, C.A. Newsome, 
Warren Cobb Jr., Julian Felts, Fred Ashby, Merrell Carr and Marion Rayford 
[sic; Raiford]. 

   Honorary pallbearers were members of the Ivor volunteer fire department. 

   Rawls died Tuesday in Louise Obici Memorial Hospital, Suffolk. 

   He was a native of Isle of Wight County and the husband of Mrs. Barbara 
Brothers Rawls. He was a member of Ivor United Methodist Church, where he was 
Sunday school superintendent. 

   He was a charter member of Ivor Volunteer Fire Department, treasurer of 
Ivor Ruritan Club, and was an Army veteran of World War II. 

   He was a retired employee of Virginia State Department of Agriculture. 

   Other survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Brenda E. Smith of Chesapeake; 
two sons, R. Kilby Rawls and Ricky C. Rawls of Ivor; and a granddaughter. 


Owen Robert "Doodle" RAWLS, Jr., retired from VA Department of Agriculture, 
b. 18 Nov 1924, Isle of Wight Co., d. 18 Nov 1980, Suffolk, 
interred in Ivor Cemetery*, 20 Nov 1980, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 20, 1980, p. 12A 

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

His father & step-mother are buried in Antioch Christian Church Cemetery, 
   near Windsor. 
   Antioch list, an extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/antioch.txt 

They were omitted from Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} #20: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 

His father's obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," Nov. 16, 1929, p. 3) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/r420o2ob.txt 


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