Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Pittman, John F., 1962 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ JOHN FREDERICK PITTMAN J.F. PITTMAN, 55, FORMER VA. THERAPIST WHALEYVILLE - John Frederick Pittman, a former physic therapist with the Veterans Administration, died in Obici Hospital Tuesday at 2 a.m. after a heart attack. He was a native of Nansemond County, a son of the late John R. and Mrs. Alta March Pittman. After graduation from Whaleyville High School, he went with the Veterans Administration for work and training in Northport, Long Island, N.Y. He was later transferred with this organization to a hospital in Lexington, Ky. in 1933 he returned in Whaleyville where he operated his own farm. He was a member of Reynoldson Baptist Church and its Brotherhood. He was married to the late Erna Biendarra Pittman. Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. J.R. Taylor of Whaleyville and Mrs. B.A. Owens of Gates, N.C.; and two brothers, H.D. Pittman of Ahoskie, N.C. and T.D. Pittman of Newport News. A funeral service will be conducted Thursday at 4 p.m. in Hill Funeral Home, Suffolk, by the Rev. Donald Stewart of Reynoldson Baptist Church. Burial will be in Holly Lawn Cemetery. The family will be at the home of Mrs. B.A. Owens in Gates. John Frederick "Fred" PITTMAN, Whaleyville farmer, former V.A. physical therapist, Nansemond Co. native, d. 26 Jun 1962, Suffolk, age 55, interred in Holly Lawn Cemetery*, Suffolk, 28 Nov 1962, "The Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), June 27, 1962 *Plot not specified; his parents are buried in Block N, Plot 6. Holly Lawn list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/hollyln.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Joan Brinkley, and Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/p355j2ob.txt