Nansemond-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Johnson, Bernard H., 1942 

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Bernard H. Johnson 

  Bernard H. Johnson, of 129 Warren street, died this morning at 12:30 o'clock 
at a local hospital. 

  Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Emma Johnson, three daughters, Mrs. J.W. 
Hall, Mrs. H.C. Nelms and Miss Mary Louise Johnson and a stepdaughter, Miss 
Betty D. Fowler, all of Suffolk; four grandchildren, two sons, James H. and 
Linwood R. Johnson, of Suffolk; three sisters, Mrs. E.L. Nelms and Mrs. J.E. 
Cox of Ocean View, and Mrs. E.L. Gardner of Richmond, two brothers, H.C. 
Johnson of Walters Cephas Johnson of Ocean View and a half-brother, E.W. 
Bradshaw of Ocean View. 

  The body was taken to the funeral home of I.O. Hill & Co., where funeral 
services will be held Monday at 4:30 p.m. with Dr. John G. Truitt officiating. 
Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. 

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BERNARD H. JOHNSON 

  Bernard H. Johnson, of 129 Warren Street, died Sunday at 12:30 a.m. at a 
local hospital after a long illness. 

  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Emma Johnson, three daughters, Mrs. J.W. 
Hall, Mrs. H.C. Nelms, and Miss Mary Louise Johnson, and a step-daughter, 
Miss Betty D. Fowler, all of Suffolk, James H. and Linwood R. Johnson, of 
Suffolk, three sisters, Mrs. E.L. Nelms, and Mrs. J.E. Cox, of Ocean View, 
Va., Mrs. E.L. Gordon of Richmond, Va.; two brothers, H.C. Johnson of Walters, 
Va., and Cephas Johnson, of Ocean View, Va., one half-brother, E.T. Bradshaw, 
of Ocean View, and four grandchildren. 

  The body was taken to the funeral home of O.I. [sic] I.O. Hill & Company 
where the funeral services will be held today at 4:30 p.m. conducted by Dr. 
H.J. Goodwin. 

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  Funeral services for Bernard H. Johnson, who died Sunday morning at a local 
hospital after a long illness, were conducted at 4:30 p.m. yesterday at the 
I.O. Hill and Company Funeral Home by Dr. J.G. Truitt. 

  Mrs. J.G. Truitt, accompanied by Mrs. Craig Wallace, sang "No Night There." 
Dr. Truitt read Tennyson's "Crossing the Bar."  

  The casket was covered with a pall of white gladiolas and lavender asters. 
Pallbearers were Wilson Horne, Everett Harris, B.R. Fanney, H.L. Russell, C. 
Russell, James Selmon [sic; Salmon], Alfred Horne, and J.H. Morgan.  Honorary 
pallbearers were friends of the family, and burial was in Cedar Hill Cemetery.


Bernard Harrison JOHNSON, of Suffolk, Bell Hosiery knitter, 
b. 8 Dec 1891, Isle of Wight Co., d. 5 Jul 1942, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block I, Lot 203*), Suffolk, 6 Jul 1942, 
"Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Mon., July 6, 1942, p. 8, 
   posted at: www.infoweb.newsbank.com; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 20, No. 90, Mon., July 6, 1942, p. 8; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 20, No. 91, Tues., July 7, 1942, p. 8 

*Cedar Hill list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_j.txt 

Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 15408 (Suffolk #185), which gives his mother as 
   Sarah Ann BRADSHAW. 

His parents, James I. & Sarah Nathaniel (BRADSHAW) JOHNSON, are buried in 
   Mt. Carmel Christian Church Cemetery, Walters. 
   Mt. Carmel list, another extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/mtcarmel.txt 

His widow's obit ("Virginian-Pilot," Jan. 8, 1971, img. 37) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/j525e15o.txt 

His mother's obit ("Virginian-Pilot," Apr. 20, 1939, p. 18) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/j525s11o.txt 


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