Sussex-Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Nettles, Louise Robertson, 1997 

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LOUISE ROBERTSON NETTLES 

  WAKEFIELD: Mrs. Louise Robertson Nettles, 89, widow of Dr. Edwin C. Nettles 
and lifelong resident of Wakefield, died Friday, Sept. 19, 1997, at Southside 
Medical Center, Petersburg, following a brief illness.

  Born on Aug. 17, 1908, she was daughter of the late Jesse Thomas and Nannie 
Gertrude Osborne Robertson.  At the time of her death, she was the oldest 
living member of Wakefield Baptist Church.

  Mrs. Nettles was a graduate of James Madison University and in her early 
years taught public school in Clifton Forge.  A dedicated member of her church 
throughout her life, she was active in the Sunbeams, Royal Ambassadors, Youth 
Fellowship, Student Union, the WMU and the Barker-Hart Group.  She was also a 
deaconess.

  She was well-known as an outstanding homemaker and cook, and was a 
consummate seamstress, quilter, craftsperson and flower designer.  She was a 
member of the Frances Bland Randolph Chapter, Daughters of the American 
Revolution, Petersburg.

  "Easer," as she was known, is survived by a daughter, Dr. Elizabeth Jane 
Nettles of St. Louis; two sons, Edwin Carter Nettles, Jr., a Wakefield 
attorney, and his wife, Kathryn Chappell Nettles, and Charles Leland Nettles, 
and wife, Donna Mahoney Nettles, of Banco; four grandchildren, Bryar Chappell 
Nettles of Richmond, Kathryn Carter Nettles of Boston, Mass., Edwin Carter 
Nettles III of Wakefield and Louise Robertson Nettles Rogan of Seattle, Wash.; 
two great-grandchildren, Kathryn Sandberg Brodell and Gregory Gerard Rogan 
Jr.; and two sisters, Clara R. Jones of Harrisonburg and Mary Charles R. 
Higgins of Waverly and Moon.

  Funeral services will be held at Wakefield Baptist Church on Monday, Sept. 
22, at 2 p.m. by the Rev. Ronald E. Carlberg, Douglas M. Cotter and Richard 
Gordon Hutcheson Jr.  Burial will follow in Wakefield Cemetery.  The family 
will receive friends at Purviance Funeral Home, Wakefield, this evening from 
7 to 8:30 p.m. and at other times from 7 to 8:30 p.m. and at other times at 
the residence of her son, E. Carter Nettles Jr., 323 E. Church Street, 
Wakefield.

  Memorial donations may be made to Wakefield Baptist Church, c/o Robert L. 
Scarborough, Wakefield, 23888.


Louise (ROBERTSON; Mrs. Edwin C.) NETTLES, of Wakefield, 
b. 17 Aug 1908, Surry Co., d. 19 Sep 1997, Petersburg, 
interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 22 Sep 1997, 
"The Daily Press" (Newport News, VA), Sep. 21, 1997, p. 46 

*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 


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