DATE: Sunday, September 21, 1997            TAG: 9709210035

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LOUISE R. NETTLES

Mrs. Louise Robertson Nettles, 89, widow of Dr. Edwin C. Nettles and lifelong resident of Wakefield, Va., died Friday, Sept. 19, 1997, in Southside Regional Medical Center, Petersburg, following a brief illness. Born on August 17, 1908, she was the 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, Va. 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, craft-person 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 his wife, Donna Mahoney Nettles, of Banco, Va.; 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, Waverly and Moon, Va..

Funeral services will be held in Wakefield Baptist Church on Monday, Sept. 22, 1997, at 2 p.m. by the Rev. Ronald E. Carlberg, the Rev. Douglas M. Cotter and the Rev. Richard Gordon Hutcheson Jr. Burial will be in Wakefield Cemetery. The family will receive friends at Purviance Funeral Home, Wakefield, today from 7 to 8:30 p.m. and at other times at the residence of her son, E. Carter Nettles Jr., 323 E. Church St., Wakefield, Va. Memorial donations may be made to the Wakefield Baptist Church, c/o Robert L. Scarborough, Wakefield, Va. 23888. KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY

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