Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Adams, Johnnie E., 1966 

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Gun Shot Kills Forest Glen HS Ball Player 

  A 17 year-old Nansemond County high school junior was found dead in his car 
about 9 a.m. Saturday, a wound from a .22 rifle through his head. 

  Dr. Richardson Joyner, Nansemond County medical examiner, said Saturday that 
Johnnie Earl Adams, a varsity basketball player for John Yeates High School, 
had died from the wound only a short while before he was found in his car at 
Chuckatuck.  A .22 rifle was found on the seat beside the youth, the examiner 
said, and a ballistic check is being made.  The body was sent to the chief 
medical examiner in Norfolk for autopsy. 

  He was the son of Joseph E. Adams Jr. and Mrs. Myrtle Mae Twine Adams of 
1662 Wilroy Rd. 

  Dr. Joyner said that information available so far indicated the youth and 
several other young people had been together after a basketball game Friday 
night in which young Adams participated, and that the youth had taken the 
others to their homes, dropping off the last one about 11:45 p.m. 

  When young Adams did not come home Friday night, Dr. Joyner said, his mother 
and one of his friends began searching for him, finding him on a side street 
in Chuckatuck about 9 a.m. Saturday, slumped in his car. 

  Investigation by the Nansemond County Sheriff's Dept. continues. 

  A native of Suffolk, he was a member of Wilroy Baptist Church, the Young 
People's Sunday School Class and the Training Union of the church. 

  At John Yeates, besides being a member of the basketball squad, he was a 
member of the Varsity Club. 

  In addition to his parents, surviving are two sisters, Miss Brenda Sue Adams 
and Miss Patricia Ann Adams; three brothers, Glenn Michael Adams, Randy Wayne 
Adams and Billy Ray Adams, all of the home; his maternal grandparents, Mr. and 
Mrs. J.C. Twine of Aulander, N.C.; and his paternal grandmother, Mrs. Ellie H. 
Adams of Suffolk. 

  A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Wilroy Baptist Church by 
the Rev. J.C. Mitchell, pastor of First Baptist Church.  Burial will be in 
Holly Lawn Cemetery. 

  The body will be taken from I.O. Hill & Co. Funeral Home to the church at 1 
p.m. 

[photo, cationed:] 
JOHNNIE E. ADAMS 


Johnnie Earl ADAMS, son of Joseph E. Jr. & Myrtle M. (TWINE) ADAMS, 
b. 5 Jun 1948, Suffolk, suicide 19 Feb 1966, Nansemond Co., 
interred in Holly Lawn Cemetery*, Suffolk, 22 Feb 1966, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 44, No. 43, Sun., Feb. 20, 1966, pp. 1-2 

*His parents are also buried there.  Holly Lawn list, an extension 
   of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/hollyln.txt 

Birthplace &c. from D.Cert. 66-005823 


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