Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Skipper, Edna L. DeBose, 1967 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ EDNA LOUISE DeBOSE SKIPPER FRANKLIN - A funeral service for Mrs. Edna DeBose Skipper was conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. in Poplar Spring Cemetery by the Rev. Robert D. Fridley of High Street Methodist Church and the Rev. Ira D. Hudgins of Franklin Baptist Church. W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home was in charge. Pallbearers were Otis Blythe, Anton Feher, M.F. Jeffers, Edward H. Blythe Jr., Charles Faley and Bill Cook. Mrs. Skipper, 65, died Sunday night in a hospital. She was the wife of Harry Skipper and a daughter of Lytton and Mrs. Lula Gibbons DeBose. A native of South Carolina, she was a member of High Street Methodist Church. Besides her husband, surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Yvonne Dampier of Franklin; three sisters, Mrs. C.C. Stewart of Columbia, S.C., Mrs. J.O. Barnett of Russellville, S.C., and Mrs. Walter Stevens of North Charleston, S.C.; a brother, L.R. DeBose of Pamplico, S.C.; and six grandchildren. Edna Louise (DeBOSE; Mrs. Harry L.) SKIPPER, SC native, d. 12 Feb 1967, age 65, interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 3, Section B, Plot 20*), Franklin, 14 Feb 1967, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 16, 1966, p. 5 *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx3.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/s216e1ob.txt