ELSIE RAY WALLS GRAVES

ELSIE RAY WALLS GRAVES

MILTON &  LEWES

Elsie Ray Walls Graves, age 91, of Lewes, died Friday, April 23, 1993, in Peninsula

General Hospital, Salisbury, of an heart attack a day earlier.

Mrs Graves had moved to Lewes from Milton about twenty years ago to be near her

daughter, sue Graves Raley and maintained hr own home home, drove her car and was

a weekly bridge club member until her death. She was a member of the Goshen

United Methodist Church Womans Society. In Milton.

Since 1957 Mrs Graves owned and operated the Graves Manufacturing Company, a

childrens dress factory in Milron, where she had grown up.

Her husband Milton T. Graves died in 1953 and she is survived by her daughter Sue

and three grandchildren and two great grandchildren.

She is buried in Odd Fellows Cemetery , Milton.

Elsie Ray Walls was born in Broadkill Hundred 1901 to Benjamin Franklin Walls and

Susan Ellen Pettyjohn Walls. She, the sixth child of the family of seven. Three died as

infants, but she had two sisters, Bertha H. and Lida Frances Walls and a brother Elwood..

Source: Wilmington News Journal Monday July 26, 1993. Abstract Harrison H., 2018.