Nellie Olivia Lewis Marsh, 85, Oyster Resident

December 24, 2012

Nellie Olivia Lewis Marsh, 85, wife of the late Ernest F. Marsh, Jr. and a resident of Oyster, passed away Sunday, December 23, at Riverside Shore Memorial Hospital in Nassawadox.

The funeral service will be 2 p.m. Thursday, December 27, at Travis Chapel United Methodist Church with the Rev. Patricia Money officiating. Interment will follow in Cape Charles Cemetery. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Nellie Olivia Lewis Marsh Funeral Fund, P.O. Box 633, Exmore, VA 23350.

A native of Birdsnest, Olivia was the daughter of the late Theodore Lewis and the late Jeanette Carpenter Lewis. She was a homemaker, loving mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. She was a waitress at the America House, Rebecca’s, Henry’s, and Paul’s restaurants, a line worker at Northampton Growers, Avon representative, cafeteria worker at Northampton High School, employee at C & D Seafood, member of Travis Chapel United Methodist Church, and member of United Methodist Women’s Group and served as Treasurer.

She is survived by four daughters, Frances Hall and her husband, Wayne, Lillian Brady, Angel Spady and her husband, Randy, Melissa Marsh-Crockett; 12 grandchildren; 21 great grandchildren; a sister in law, Delma Lewis; an aunt, Nellie Phillips; numerous extended family, friends and her beloved Jack Russell Terrier, Cindy Lou. She was predeceased by a daughter, Jeanette Butler.

Online condolences may be sent to the family at www.doughtyfuneralhome.com.

Arrangements were made by Wilkins-Doughty Funeral Home, Cape Charles.