Milford chronicle., 1955-02-25
OBITUARY
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day, February 20, at the home of
nephew, T. A. Riley, in Harring-
ton.
Graveside services were held at
p. m. on Wednesday in Holly
wood Cemetery, near Harrington,
with the Rev. Milton Elliott of
Harrington officiating.
Her only survivors are several
nieces and nephews.
McCOLLEY
Services for Mrs. Lizzie Voshell
McCOlley, IS, who died Sunday
night, February 20, at her home in
Wyoming, were held Thursday at
2 p. m. from the Ferguson and
Hayes Funeral Home, Dover.
Interment was made in Odd Eel
lows Cemetery, Camden.
Mrs McCOlley is survived by
her husband, Walter NJ, a sister,
Mrs. Nellie Hobbs, Wyoming, and
three brothers, Irving VOshel, Do
yer; Perlie VOshell. Kenton and
James Voshell, Wyoming.
KIRBY
Funeral services for Miss Mary
Elizabeth Kirby, age 94, will be
held from the j. Millard Cooper
Funeral Home, 10 East Center St,
Harrington, Del, on Friday, Feb.
%, 1855 at 1900 p. m. The Rev.
William Tull, pastor of the Church
of God, Of Milford will Oficiate at
the services. Interment in Odd
Fellows Cemetery, Milford. Rela-
tives and friends may call at the
funeral home Thursday evening
from z to 8. Miss Kirby passed away
Tuesday afternoon at the Swartzen-
truber Rest Home in Greenwood,
after several months illness. She
was born near Milford, the daugh-
ter of the late John Wesley and
Susan Kirby and lived in that vi
cinity her entire life. She never
married and is survived by one
brother, Frisby Kirby and two
nepheWs, Paris and Russell of
Milford also several other nieces
and nephews.
\ DAVIS
John J. Davis, aged Sc years
died at his home in MiIlsborO, Tues
day night Feb Is, following an
illness of several months.
Mr.. Davis had operated a lumber
mill and engaged in lumber busi.
ness for the past II years. Prior tC
: engaging in the lumber business he
had been the farm supervisor al
, Delaware Colony for fifteen years
A member of ZOar Methodist
Church he was a trustee and the
treasurer for the church and haC
/ served as superintendent of the
! Sunday School for II years.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs
Ethel Lawson Davis and three
/ daughters, Mrs. Catherine King, OF
{ Laurel; Mrs. Louise d. DOrey and
= Miss Joan Davis of MillsborO. There
are also two grandchildren and a
half brother, w. L. Emerson, Elkin
] North Carolina A son Richard
! Davis was killed in an automobile
' accident in November of 1852
= Funeral services in charge of the
James Funeral Home, held in ZOaT
Methodist Church, Sunday after
. noon at two o'clock. Services were
. conducted by Rev. Arthur Backus
S pastor of the church, assisted by
l. Rev. E. c. Graham, a former pastor
e and the Rev. Joseph V. Holiday
pastor of the Georgetown Methodist
Circuit. Interment in Mechanics
l Cemetery, MillsbOrO.
). HAWKINS
j Thomas T. Hawkins, former Gus.
: tOdian in the Sussex County Court
: House and in the Georgetown Pos
Office, died Thursday in Milford
Memorial Hospital. He had been Ill
! for the past two years.
He was born in Pulaski, Va, Z
son of the late Burton and Nancy
s. Welch Hawkins. He had been {
p resident of Georgetown for many
years, and moved to the western
side of the county two years ago
Surviving are his wife. Mrs
p Mary MCGEE Hawkins and The
: following children, Mrs. Charles Ell
: wood wilkins, Georgetown; Mrs
" William Carmean. Bridgeville; Pay
o ton Hawkins, Harrington; Ray
, mOnd Franklin Hawkins, Whining
n ton; Mrs. Chester Scott, Chester
: Pa; Mrs. Willard Jackson, Newarl
d and Mrs. Clifton King. Georgetown
l. There are also % grandchildrel
and great grandchild.
. Funeral services will be hell
Sunday afternoon at one o'clock
G in the Carey Funeral Home, Of
N. Bedford Street, Georgetown. Rev
DR., Omar E. Jones will conduct tn
t. service and interment will be il
o Union Cemetery in Georgetown.
2 Friends may call at tn Care
9 Funeral Home, Saturday evening
n WOOD
2 Services were held Wednesda
afternoon from the Watson FuneT
al Home in Seaford for Harley
!; Wood, 40. The Rev. r. Jervi
Z; Cooke, pastor of St. Johns Meth
\, Odist Church, Ofiiciated. Intermen
i, was made in the Odd Fellows Gem
;: etery.
s, Mr.. Wood, formerly a pharma
s. cist, had been in poor health fo
=, several months. He died Sunday
G. February 20, in Nanticoke Memor
It, ial Hospital in SeafOrd. He was
!: son Of the late Charles d. and Cor
? Elliott Wood of Wilmington an
r. lived in Seaford for several years
?. Surviving are his wife. Ger