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MRS. G. V. TILLEY DIES AT STATESVILLE
Wife of First Baptist Church to Be Buried at Burlington.
Special to the Observer.
Statesville, Nov. 22 -- After a brief illness with bronchial trouble, Mrs. Dora Stafford Tilley, wife of Rev. G. V. Tilley, pastor of the First Baptist church, died at the parsonage this morning at 10 o'clock.
Funeral services in which the Statesville pastors will participate, will be held from the church, Wednesday at 11 o'clock, and the remains will be taken to Burlington where interment will take place. Funeral services at Burlington will be conducted by Dr. Charles E. Maddry at 10 o'clock Thursday morning.
Mrs. Tilley was 46 years of age. She was the daughter of the late William Stafford, of Burlington. Besides her husband, she leaves two brothers, Thomas and Charles Stafford, of Burlington, and four sisters Mrs. John R. Foster, and Misses Ila and Suzie Stafford, of Burlington, and Mrs. J. M. Cheek, of Chapel Hill.
Source: Charlotte Observer, Charlotte, NC newspaper, Wednesday, 23 Nov 1921, page 7.
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