Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Johnston, Edward W. September 18, 1955
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Virginian-Pilot  September 22, 1955
PORTSMOUTH - Funeral services for Pvt. Edward Walston Johnston, USMC, of Cradock, 
who died Sunday from a shotgun wound in the left chest, will be conducted tomorrow 
at 10 a.m. at Holy Angels Catholic Church by the Rev. Edward W. Johnson, pastor of 
St. Vincent’s Catholic Church, Berkeley, W.Va., and a former pastor of Sacred 
Heart Catholic Church, Norfolk, an uncle of Johnston’s. Burial will be in St. 
Mary’s Cemetery with military honors.
Rosary services will be conducted at the Derry-Twiford Funeral Home today at 8 
p.m.
Private Johnston’s body was found on the Western Branch of the Elizabeth River 
late Sunday. Dr. C. O. Barclay, Norfolk County medical examiner, said no foul play 
was indicated.
Johnston was a native of Newport News and had been a resident of Cradock for 17 
years. He resided at 7 Reid Street. He was a graduate of St. Paul’s Catholic High 
School, in Portsmouth, and attended the College of William and Mary. He was the 
son of Lawrence Vincent Johnston, Sr. and Mrs. Gertrude Hartwell Johnston.
Besides his parents, he is survived by two sisters, Mrs. Cecelia Johnston Kramer, 
of Riverdale, Md., and Mrs. Elizabeth Johnston Moore, of Waldorf, Md., and three 
brothers, Lawrence Vincent Johnston, Jr., of Rockledge, Fla., and Robert Michael 
Johnston and Richard Bruce Johnston, both of Cradock.	


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