Southampton-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Whitley, E. Harrell Jr., 2000 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ ELVIN HARRELL WHITLEY JR. E. Harrell Whitley Jr. of the 1600 block of Clay Street died Feb. 24, 2000. He was a member of High Street United Methodist Church and the Woodmen of the World Holly Camp 18. He retired from Union Camp, now International Paper, from the Maintenance Department. He was the son of the late Elvin Harrell Whitley Sr. and Mary L. Whitley of Carrsville, Va. He is survived by his wife, Ira Edwards Whitley; two sons, Gerald E. Whitley and his wife, Jeannie, of Franklin, and Elvin Harrell "Hal" Whitley III and his wife, Linda, of Carrsville; two granddaughters, Anne Renee' Whitley and Ashley Dawn Whitley; and a brother, Charles Rowland Whitley of Carrsville. He was predeceased by two sisters, Mary Louise Whitley and Sallie Mae Holland; and a brother, Oliver E. Whitley. The Rev. Tommy Speight will hold funeral services at Courtland Baptist Church at 2:30 p.m. Sunday. Burial will be in Southampton Memorial Park, Franklin. The family will receive relatives and friends at Holland-Rideout Funeral Home from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today and at other times at the home of Gerald Whitley, 700 Rebecca St., Franklin. Memorial donations may be made to Courtland Baptist Church, 22264 Main St., Courtland, VA 23837. Elvin Harrell WHITLEY, Jr., retired from Union Camp maintenance dept., b. 25 Jul 1912, d. 24 Feb 2000, interred in Southampton Memorial Park (Gethsemane, Plot 159*), 27 Feb 2000, "Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Feb. 26, 2000, B4 *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Southampton Memorial list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/somempk.txt His WW-II draft card gives b. Southampton Co. His M.Cert. gives Isle of Wight Co. (Southampton Co. 1939 #125) His parents & maternal grandparents are buried in Beaver Dam Baptist Church Cemetery, near Carrsville. Beaver Dam list (BD-56 & 78), an extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/bvrdam.txt His father's obits ("Tidewater News," Mar. 9 & 13, 1972) are posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/w340e3ob.txt His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," July 24, 1969, p. 8) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/w340m3ob.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/w340h2ob.txt