Nansemond-Warwick County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Johnson, E. Lester, 1953 

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Rites Sunday For Eddie L. Johnson 

  Funeral services for Eddie Lester Johnson, a former resident of Nansemond 
County who died yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at the Patrick Henry 
Hospital, will he held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock at the Holy Neck 
Christian Church. 

  The church pastor, the Rev. Allen L. Hurdle, and the Rev. Edwin Thornton, 
pastor of the Beaver Dam Baptist Church, will conduct the services.  Burial 
will take place in the Holland Cemetery. 

  The body was taken to the I.O. Hill and Company Funeral Home where it will 
remain until Sunday at 12:30 o'clock at which time it will be taken to the 
Holy Neck Church to lie in state until the funeral hour. 

  He was the son of the late James and Rebecca Warren Johnson, of Martin 
County, N.C., a member of the Holy Neck Christian Church and of the First 
Bible Class at that church. 

  He had made his home for the past 21 years with his sister-in-law, Mrs. 
Shepherd Johnson, of near Holland.  Others surviving are two daughters, Mrs. 
Jenning Askey of Ahoskie, N.C. and Mrs. E.B. Knight of Winton, N.C.; two sons, 
Leon Johnson, of Washington, D.C., and Henry M. Johnson, of Franklin; two 
sisters, Mrs. D.C. Cross of Oak City, N.C. and Mrs. Moses Robertson, of 
Hobgood, N.C.; a brother, Jim Johnson, of Norfolk; nine grandchildren; a 
number of nieces and nephews. 


Eddie Lester JOHNSON, formerly of Nansemond Co., retired farmer, 
b. 16 Jan 1888*, Martin Co., NC, d. 5 Feb 1953, Warwick, 
interred in Holland Cemetery*, 8 Feb 1953, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 31, No. 31, Feb. 6, 1953, p. 1, col. 8 

*We formerly listed d. 6 Feb 1940.  Holland list, an extension of 
   the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/holland.txt 

D.Cert. 4103 (Warwick #20) 

His WW-II draft card gives b. 18 Jan 1889, Martain Co., NC; res. Holland RFD. 


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