Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Johnston, Edward Walston November 30, 1982
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Virginian Pilot December 2, 1982

                Edward W. Johnston, Retired Catholic Priest

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 1900s 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 Bert Hogan Drive in the Larkspur section of Virginia 
Beach.



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