Isle of Wight-Surry-Southampton County-Newport News City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Joyner, Grace D. Pittman, 1981 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ GRACE D. PITTMAN BOWDEN JOYNER NEWPORT NEWS - A funeral service for Mrs. Grace D. Joyner, 77, was held Sunday at 3 p.m. in Tucker Swamp Baptist Church, Zuni, by the Rev.J. Waverly Horne and Dr. R. Furnam Kenney of Virginia Baptist Home*. Burial was in the Bowden-Joyner family cemetery, Zuni. Peninsula Funeral Home was in charge. Mrs. Joyner died Thursday in the nursing home. A native of Surry County, she had lived in Newport News of 16 years. She was a member of Tucker Swamp Baptist Church, Zuni, and a former Sunday school teacher. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Virginia Wuska of Newport News; four sons, Elbert R. Bowden of Wakefield, Harold D. Bowden of Newport News, Andrew A. Bowden of Shoreham, N.Y., and Daniel E. Bowden of Tampa, Fla., five stepdaughters; a stepson; a brother George Pittman of Newport News; 15 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. Grace D. (PITTMAN BOWDEN; Mrs. Leonard A.) JOYNER, formerly of Newport News, Surry Co. native, d. 3 Sep 1981, Newport News*, age 77, interred in the BOWDEN-JOYNER family cemetery**, Zuni, 6 Sep 1981, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Sep. 7, 1981, p. 16 *Virginia Baptist Home's Newport News location is now called "The Chesapeake." **located on Sandpit Rd, a dirt road off Thomas Woods Trail (Rt. 614), south of Zuni. Isle of Wight County Historical Society Grave Site Survey Task Force list: http://www.iwchs.com/Documents/Bowden_Sandpit%20Rd_Cemetery.doc 1st Husband - Solomon R. BOWDEN (1893-1946) Her second husband is buried with his 1st wife, in a BRITT-COOK Cem., off 460. Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 9 (IX-25): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol9.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/j560g1ob.txt