Sussex-Gloucester County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Andrews, M. Frances Potts, 2012 

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MARTHA "FRANCES" POTTS ANDREWS 

  GLOUCESTER - Martha "Frances" Potts Andrews, 84, passed away on Monday, 
June 18, 2012, in Gloucester, Va.

  She was born in Snow Hill, N.C., to the late James Henry and Iola Marshburn 
Potts and was the widow of John H. "Jack" Andrews.

  She was a graduate of St. Elizabeth’s Hospital School of Nursing, class of 
1948, and a long-time member of Bellamy United Methodist Church in Gloucester. 
She retired from the Middlesex County Public Schools where she taught a health 
assistant group in the vocation dept.  She also taught a CAN course at 
Rappahannock Community College. She worked alongside of her husband Jack while 
he was the manager of Royston Funeral Home in Marshall, Va.; Colonial Funeral 
Home in Smithfield, Va., and when they moved to Gloucester, she was very much 
behind the scenes.

  She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, and her siblings, Ruth, 
Buddy, Dick and Mary Lou.

  She is survived by her son, Gerald L. "Jerry" Andrews and his wife Ann, of 
Gloucester, Va., and John Michael "Mike" Andrews, of Jacksonville, Fla.; her 
sister, Carolyn Rodgers, of Sarasota, Fla.; grandchildren, Hope Andrews Hunter 
and her husband Nick, Jeri-Lee Andrews Russ and her husband Justin, Justin 
James Andrews and his wife Jessica, of Fairbanks, Alaska, Mary Grace Andrews, 
of Tampa, Fla., and Kelly Michelle Andrews, of Springfield; and her great-
grandchildren, David Noah Russ and Colbie Faith Russ; and a host of nieces and 
nephews.

  The family will receive friends at Andrews Funeral Home on Thursday, June 
21, 2012, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.  Funeral services will be held on Friday, June 
22, 2012, at 11 a.m. in Bellamy United Methodist Church, 4870 Chestnut Fork 
Road, Gloucester.  Burial will be Bellamy Memorial Cemetery.

  Memorial donation may be made to Gloucester Volunteer Fire and Rescue, P.O. 
Box 1417, Gloucester, Va. 23061.  The family would like to give special thanks 
to the Gloucester House for their care for the last three years.

  [...] Andrews Funeral Home, Gloucester, Va., is in charge of arrangements.


Martha "Frances" (POTTS; Mrs. John H. ANDREWS, former nurse & teacher, 
b. 16 Jan 1928, Snow Hill, Greene Co., NC, d. 18 Jun 2012, Gloucester, 
interred in Bellamy Methodist Church Cemetery*, Bellamy, Gloucester Co., 
   18 Jun 2012, 
"The Daily Press" (Newport News, VA), June 20, 2012 

Additional information: 

*Find a Grave also calls this Bellamy Memorial Cemetery. 

Her husband's obit ("Daily Press," June 12, 2003), 
   with their marriage record appended, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/a536j1ob.txt 

Her parents, James Henry & Iola (MASHBURN) POTTS are buried in 
   Grandview Memorial Gardens, Clinton, Sampson Co., NC. 
   (Find a Grave Mems. #77802913 & #77802859) 


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