Ryde Social Heritage Group research the social history of the citizens of Ryde, Isle of Wight. Documenting their lives, businesses and burial transcriptions.
RYDE SOCIAL HERITAGE GROUP
Based at Ryde Cemetery Heritage & Learning Centre. Preserving, documenting and promoting the social history of Ryde on the Isle of Wight.
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Mrs Rhoda Ellen Higgins

Title: Mrs
Forenames: Rhoda Ellen
Surnames: Higgins
Date of Birth: 21/09/1896
Date of Death: 18/11/1965
Burial Date: 23/11/1965
Age at Death Years: 69
Grave Type: Marked
Map Reference Number: RSHG 006 D3
Plot Number: Ryde Old Parish Cemetery 3 Plot 549
Grave Description: Old memorial: Flat grave with kerbs and crushed green glass top.
New memorial April 2008: Flat grave with black polished granite side kerbs, small integral headstone and flat foot stone with integral flower holder, gravel top to grave.
Grave Condition: Superb
Grave Condition Description: Old Memorial: some weathering replaced in April 2008, new memorial in excellent condition.
Other Information: Additional information provided by Sue Moran (nee Higgins). The body of John Edgar Higgins who died 23 April 1969 aged 39 years and the ashes of his wife Beryl Ethel Higgins who died 2 March 2005 aged 79 years are also buried in this plot. Date of Birth supplied by Tony Higgins (October 2009).

Also interred in this plot William Milford (1925), source: Bereavement Services records.
Old Website Grave ID: 1276

Inscription:

Old Memorial
IN LOVING MEMORY
OF
RHODA ELLEN HIGGINS
DIED NOVEMBER 18TH 1965
AGED 69 YEARS
AT REST

Stone with flowers
JOHN

New Memorial
Headstone
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
RHODA ELLEN HIGGINS
DIED NOVEMBER 18TH 1965
AGED 69 YEARS
KATHLEEN MARY ROSE
YOUNG
1932 - 2005
LOVE AND MISS YOU ALWAYS
RAYMOND HIGGINS
1926 - 2007
AT REST

Foot stone
TREASURED MEMORIES OF
JOHN EDGAR HIGGINS
DIED APRIL 23RD 1969
AGED 39 YEARS
AND HIS WIFE
BERYL ETHEL HIGGINS
DIED MARCH 2ND 2005
AGED 79 YEARS
REUNITED.

Photographs:

Janette Gregson
Higgins family grave (April 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Higgins family grave (April 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
Higgins family grave (April 2008)
Photographer: Janette Gregson
Janette Gregson
R Higgins (April 2006)
Photographer: Janette Gregson

Related Documents:

PDF file: Census; Death; Obituary; Funeral.
''Entry from the 1901 census,and the death notice, obituary and funeral report from the IW Times and IW County Press.''

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