Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Johnson, Josephine November 23, 1976
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Virginian Pilot November 24, 1976

                     Miss Johnson, 89, Norfolk Poet

Miss Josephine Johnson, 89, formerly a resident of Graydon Avenue, widely 
known Norfolk poet, died Tuesday morning in a hospital.
A native of Norfolk, she was the daughter of Robert and Mrs. Eleanor Shipp 
Johnson.
She was a founder and past president of the Poets Club of Norfolk and a past 
president of the Poetry Society of Virginia.  She was educated at the old 
Leache-Wood Seminary here and at the University of Virginia, Harvard College 
and Longwood College.
She was a member of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church.
She was author of "The Unwilling Gypsy," a collection of early verse and 
also of many other poems published in the national magazines in this country 
and in England.
She was a member of the Poetry Society of America, the Norfolk Society of 
Arts, the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities and was 
on its advisory board of the Norfolk chapter.  She was elected as an 
honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa by the College of William and Mary.
Survivors include a nephew, J. Lamar Davis and a great-niece, Miss Julia 
Davis, both of Virginia Beach.
A funeral will be held Friday at 11 a.m. in St. Andrew's Episcopal Church by 
the Rev. Roger C. Snyder.  Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery with H.D. 
Oliver Funeral Apartments in charge.  The family has requested that flowers 
be ommitted.

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