Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Johnston, Edward Walston, Rev. November 30, 1982
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Virginian-Pilot  December 2, 1982
RICHMOND - Father Edward Walston Johnston, 89, a native of Norfolk and a resident 
here for many years, died Wednesday in St. Joseph’s Home in Richmond.
Johnston
 was ordained a 
priest in the 
Roman Catholic Church
in
 1924, and was a

former pastor
 of Sacred
 Heart Catholic
 Church in Norfolk. He
was assistant pastor
 
of St. Paul's 
Catholic Church in Portsmouth and served in churches in Newport

News, Arlington, Clarendon, Hot Springs, Harrisonburg and Berkeley Springs, W.Va.
Johnston began studying for the priesthood after working in the advertising 
department of a Norfolk newspaper.
In the 1930s, he served as Civilian Conservation Corps chaplain in the Shenandoah 
Valley. He became an Army chaplain and served in North Africa and Italy, after 
first being assigned to posts in Indiana and Massachusetts. He left the Army with 
the rank of lieutenant colonel and was in the Army Reserve.
He is survived by his sister, Mary Olive Johnston of Norfolk.
A Joyful Mass of the Resurrection will be offered at 2 p.m. Friday in Sacred Heart 
Catholic Church by Bishop Walter J. Sullivan. Burial will be in St. Mary’s 
Catholic Cemetery. H.D. Oliver Funeral Apartments, Norfolk, is in charge.
The family will be at 533 Ben Hogan Drive in the Larkspur section of Virginia 
Beach.


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