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Ruth Virginia Bradshaw
Posted 7/2/08
Ruth Virginia Bradshaw, 92 EWELL -- Ruth Virginia Bradshaw, 92, Smith Island, died on Thursday, June 26, 2008 at the Manokin Manor Nursing Home in Princess Anne. Born on Tylerton, she was the …
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Ruth Virginia Bradshaw
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Ruth Virginia Bradshaw, 92 EWELL -- Ruth Virginia Bradshaw, 92, Smith Island, died on Thursday, June 26, 2008 at the Manokin Manor Nursing Home in Princess Anne. Born on Tylerton, she was the daughter of the late Edwin C. Smith Sr. and Annie Parks Smith. She was a homemaker. Her husband, J. Willroy Bradshaw, longtime owner of the Smith Island Oil Co., died on Sept. 25, 1915. She was a member of the Ewell United Methodist Church and was the first president of the ladies auxiliary of the Ewell Volunteer Fire Department. Surviving are her daughters, Marilou Sterling and her husband, Richard of York, Pa., and Donna Jean Laird and her husband, Terry of Ewell; two sisters, Lila Marsh of Harborton, Va. and Peggy Corbin of Tylerton; four grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren. Besides her husband, Willroy, she was preceded in death by a grandson, David Sterling, brothers, Edwin Jr., Harold, Gene, Jimmy and Billy Smith. Funeral services were held June 29, 2008 at the Ewell United Methodist Church with the Rev. Rick Edmund officiating. Burial was in the Ewell Church Cemetery. Arrangements were in the care of Bradshaw & Sons Funeral Home in Crisfield.
