Southampton-Surry-Sussex County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Spiers, Grace F. Holmes, 1966 

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GRACE HOLMES SPIERS

   WAVERLY - A funeral service for Mrs. Grace H. Spiers was conducted Friday 
at 3 p.m. in Purviance Funeral Chapel, Wakefield, by the Dr. A.J. Duncan. 
Burial was in Spring Hill Cemetery, Surry County.

   Pallbearers were Clarence Stallings, Guy Ingram, W.W. Jennings, Hugh J. 
Hargrave, Robert H. Moore and J. Garland Cooper.

   Mrs. Spiers, 72, died Wednesday in a Portsmouth hospital.

   A native of Ivor, she was a former resident of Boykins and a daughter of 
Joseph S. and Mrs. Ida Brittle Holmes and the wife of William Ernest Spiers.

   She was a member of Dendron Baptist church and former postmistress of 
Savage Station.

   Besides her husband she is survived by a son Norfleet W. Spiers of 
Portsmouth; a brother Willie H. Holmes of Hampton; and a grandson.


Grace Frances (HOLMES; Mrs. William E.) SPIERS, 
former Savage Station postmistress, 
Ivor native, formerly of Boykins, d. 6 Jul 1966, Portsmouth, age 72, 
interred in Spring Hill Cemetery, Surry Co.*, 8 Jul 1966, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 11, 1966, p. 6 

*Find A Grave describes this cemetery as being on Rt. 603 in Sussex Co. 
   (Mem. #52711743) 

Her parents are buried in Collose Baptist Church Cemetery. 
   Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} list (#44): 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 


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