CAMDEN COUNTY, GA - OBITS  Ernest S. Armstrong Jr

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Ernest Armstrong
Date April 12, 2001 

Ernest S. Armstrong Jr., 79, of Woodbine died
Tuesday at the Life Care Center in Hilliard, Fla.

A graveside service will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday
at the Woodbine City Cemetery in Woodbine with the
Rev. Marcelle Myers officiating.

Pallbearers are Hamilton Sullivan, Daniel Sullivan
Sr., Homer Sullivan, Willie Sapp, Theodore Williams,
MacArthur Hill, Horace Thomas and Marlyn Mitchell.

Honorary pallbearers are friends and neighbors of
Mr. Armstrong.

Surviving are his wife, Lounita Sullivan Armstrong
of Woodbine; four sons, Imari Yokley of Oakland,
Calif., Phillip Armstrong and Stephen Armstrong of
Riverside, Calif., and Yohance Armstrong of
Woodbine; three daughters, Phyllis Armstrong of
Washington, D.C., Dorothy Emigh of West Point,
Calif., and Ann Dixon of Colton, Calif.; one sister,
Marjorie Armstrong Jackson of Chicago, Ill.; and
other relatives. 

Mr. Armstrong graduated from DuSable High School in
Chicago and attended the Chicago City College. He
was a member of the Grant/AME in Chicago. He was a
U.S. Army veteran of World War II, who obtained the
rank of 1st Sergeant. He lived in Camden County for
21 years. He retired from the Camden County Road
Department in 1987. He was an avid golfer, fisherman
and a political and human rights advocate, earning
the name "Godfather."

Myers Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.


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The Charlton County Herald (http://planttel.net/~cherald/)
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