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Emily Elizabeth “Bessie” <I>Cannon</I> Nelson Tripp

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Emily Elizabeth “Bessie” Cannon Nelson Tripp

Birth
Chicod, Pitt County, North Carolina, USA
Death
2 Feb 1972 (aged 81)
Wilmington, New Castle County, Delaware, USA
Burial
Winterville, Pitt County, North Carolina, USA GPS-Latitude: 35.5449717, Longitude: -77.4122034
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Mrs. Bessie E. Tripp, age 81, died at Daybreak Lodge Nursing Home in Wilmington, Delaware, following an illness of several years.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 P.M. from the Church Street Chapel of Farmville Funeral Home by the Rev., L. B. Manning and the Rev. Bruce Barrow.
Interment will follow in Reedy Branch Free Will Baptist Church Cemetery. The body will lie in state at the Farmville Funeral Home Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Tripp was a member of the Marlboro Free Will Baptist Church.
She is survived by two daughters; Mrs. Hilary Rogers, Wilmington, Delaware, Mrs. Lela Robinson, Farmville, two stepdaughters; Mrs. Pearl Joyner RFD Greenville, Mrs. Gregory Helboakie, Grimesland: one stepson Robert Lee Tripp, Sanford; three sisters Mrs. Addie Merritt, Wilmington, Delaware, Mrs. Lona Marslender, Chesapeake, Virginia, Mrs. Thomas Bryant, Keystone Heights, Florida, 10 grandchildren, 32 great grandchildren and 2 great, great grandchildren.
Mrs. Bessie E. Tripp, age 81, died at Daybreak Lodge Nursing Home in Wilmington, Delaware, following an illness of several years.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2:00 P.M. from the Church Street Chapel of Farmville Funeral Home by the Rev., L. B. Manning and the Rev. Bruce Barrow.
Interment will follow in Reedy Branch Free Will Baptist Church Cemetery. The body will lie in state at the Farmville Funeral Home Saturday and Sunday.
Mrs. Tripp was a member of the Marlboro Free Will Baptist Church.
She is survived by two daughters; Mrs. Hilary Rogers, Wilmington, Delaware, Mrs. Lela Robinson, Farmville, two stepdaughters; Mrs. Pearl Joyner RFD Greenville, Mrs. Gregory Helboakie, Grimesland: one stepson Robert Lee Tripp, Sanford; three sisters Mrs. Addie Merritt, Wilmington, Delaware, Mrs. Lona Marslender, Chesapeake, Virginia, Mrs. Thomas Bryant, Keystone Heights, Florida, 10 grandchildren, 32 great grandchildren and 2 great, great grandchildren.


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