Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Wills, Earl R., 1966 

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EARL RUSSELL WILLS

   SEDLEY - Earl Russell Wills, 61, died Saturday in a hospital.

   A native of Southampton, he was a son of Charles C. and Mrs. Nannie Barlow 
Wills and the husband of Mrs. Ruby Marie White Wills.

   He was a member of Sedley Baptist church and Woodman of the World.

   Besides his wife, he is survived by a son, Charles Chatman Wills of 
Petersburg; a daughter, Mrs. Alice Wills Braswell of Windsor; four brothers, 
Charles Wills and Herman Wills of Suffolk, Clyde Wills of Williamsburg, and 
Marion Wills of Roanoke; a sister, Mrs. Oscar Copeland of Norfolk; the three 
grandchildren.

   A funeral service was held Monday at 2 p.m. in Sedley Baptist Church by the 
Rev. C.L. Gatling.  Burial was in Rosemont Cemetery with W.J.M. Holland & Sons 
Funeral Home in charge.

   Pallbearers were John Bailey, Ned Wills, Elton McClenney, Roy Brooks, Frank 
Hayner, Alfonza Newsome, Bernard Smith and Cecil Tillery.


Earl Russell WILLS, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 9 Apr 1966, age 61, 
interred in Rosemont Cemetery*, Sedley, 11 Apr 1966, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 14, 1966, p. 13 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
    Rosemont list (S-75): 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/rosemont.txt 


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