Nansemond-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Powell, John H., 1939 

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MERCHANT DIES SUDDENLY FROM A HEART ATTACK 

John Henry Powell Found Dead in Warehouse Adjoining Store and Postoffice. 
Was Prominent in Civic Affairs. 

WINDSOR CHURCH MEMBER 

Buried At Western Branch Baptist Church Saturday Afternnon At 3 O'Clock. 
Two Pastors Officiate. 

   John Henry Powell, 72, one of the outstanding citizens of Nansemond County 
and for many years a merchant and postmaster at Myrtle, died suddenly Friday 
morning at 10 o'clock in the storage room of his store. 

   Mr. Powell made up the mail as usual and when the clerk returned with 
incoming mail bag, he failed to find the proprietor.  Mrs. Powell was called 
and after a search, Mr. Powell was found, dead in the warehouse.  A heart 
attack was blamed. 

   Mr. Powell, a son of the late James and Sarah Powell is survived by his 
wife, Mrs. Carrie Eley Powell; an adopted daughter, Mrs. Norman B. Herrin, of 
Suffolk; two brothers, Robert and Allan Powell, of Newport News; a sister, 
Mrs. J. Edward Johnson, of Portsmouth, and a number of nieces and nephews, 
among them John Henry Powell, his namesake, clerk of the Court of Nansemond 
County. 

   He was a member of Windsor Baptist Church and of its board of deacons.  He 
was also active in the various community services.  Funeral services were 
conducted at Western Branch Baptist Church, Saturday afternoon at 3 P.M. by 
the Rev. W.V. Carroll and Dr. J. Sydney Cobb.  Burial was in the church 
cemetery. 


John Henry POWELL, merchant and postmaster at Myrtle, 
d. 3 Nov 1939, at work, age 72, 
interred in Western Branch Baptist Church Cemetery (Row 3, Lot 6*), 
   4 Nov 1939, 
"The Weekly News" (Windsor, VA), Wed., Nov. 8, 1939; 
"The Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 20, No. 32, Nov. 9, 1939 

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

His first wife's (donated, 1929) obit is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/p400l2ob.txt 

His widow's obit ("Norfolk Ledger Dispatch," July 14, 1956) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/p400c1ob.txt 

His father is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Portsmouth. 
   Portsmouth City Virginia USGenWeb Archives, Oak Grove list M-P: 
   http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/portsmouth/cemeteries/oakgrove5.htm

His father's (donated, 1923) obits are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/p400h1ob.txt 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Carolyn Keen (VAHistoricHouses@aol.com) & 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/p400j7ob.txt