Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....March, Reuben E. Jr. & John I., 1970 

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REUBEN EDWARD MARCH 

JOHN IRA MARCH 

   HOLLAND - A funeral service for Reuben Edward March Jr. and John Ira March 
was conducted Wednesday at 3:30 p.m. in Beaver Dam Baptist Church by the Rev. 
Edwin C. Thornton Jr.  Burial was in South Quay Baptist Church Cemetery with 
W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home, Franklin, in charge.

   Pallbearers were Herman Butler, John Scott, Royal Holloway, Howard Beale, 
C.G. Darden, Joe Darden, Jack Robinson, Franklin Pagget and James Darden.

   Reuben Edward, 14 and John Ira, 13, died early Sunday in Norfolk when flames 
made a pyre of the makeshift log cabin in which they were spending the night.

   Sons of Reuben and Gearleen March of Route 1, Holland, Reuben was in the 9th 
grade at Forest Glen High School and John attended Southwestern Elementary 
School.

   Besides their parents, they are survived by their maternal grandparents, 
James Garfield of Bluefield and Mrs. Rosa Mae Johnson of Boissevain, a great-
grandmother, Mrs. M.A. Lawson of Boissevain; great-grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. 
J.G. Johnson of Bluefield, W.Va. and a sister Miss Lisa Annette March of 
Holland.


Reuben Edward MARCH, Jr., 9th-grade student at Forest Glen H.S., age 14, 
John Ira MARCH, student at Southwestern Elementary, age 13, 
sons of Reuben E. & Gearleen T. (JOHNSON) MARCH of Holland, 
d. 8 Nov 1970, Norfolk, 
interred in South Quay Baptist Church Cemetery, 11 Nov 1970, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 12, 1970 

*Their parents & paternal grandparents are also buried there. 
   South Quay list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/squay.txt 

Divorced, their mother 2m. 24 Jul 1976 Thurman Owen HARRELL, in Courtland. 
   (Southampton Co. #92).  They divorced in 1990.  Owen is buried in 
   Ahoskie Cemetery, Ahoskie, NC. 


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and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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