Sussex-Southampton County-Petersburg City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Brittle, Ethel M., 1972 

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ETHEL MAY BRITTLE

  Miss Ethel May Brittle, 78, a resident of Petersburg for the past 60 years, 
died Monday, September 18, after a brief illness.

  She was the daughter of William Thomas and Alice Coker Brittle and a native 
of Southampton county.  She was a member of the High Street Methodist Church 
and had been a seamstress and sales lady most of her life.  She had been 
employed, before her retirement, at Tobiases, LaVogue, Adrians and the Globe 
in Petersburg.

  She is survived by a niece, Mrs. Bobby A. Phillips of Mannboro and a nephew, 
John J. Brittle of Miami, Florida.

  Funeral services were held Thursday, September 21, at Purviance Funeral 
Chapel by Rev. Virgil Davis and Rev. Amos Laine.  Burial was in the Wakefield 
Cemetery.

  Pallbearers were Marvin Morris, John Unruh, Norman Britt, Frank Dyer, Otis 
Niermeyer, Leon Boissiau, Plato Smith and J.P. Derby.


Ethel May BRITTLE, of Petersburg, retired seamstress & sales lady, 
b. 28 Mar*, Southampton Co., d. 18 Sep 1972, age circa 78, 
interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 21 Sep 1972, 
donated obit, publication unknown 

*Her parents are also buried there.  Wakefield list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/cemeteries/wakefd.txt 

Her gravestone shows b. 28 Mar 1893.  

D.Cert. 72-027669 gives b. 28 Mar 1894. 


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