Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Messina, John Joseph. Sr. March 23, 1962
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Virginian-Pilot  March 24, 1962
NORFOLK - John Joseph Messina, 39, of 3526 Utah Ave., Ingleside, baseball and 
sports figure and gasoline station operator, died Friday at 3 a.m. in a Norfolk 
hospital.
A lifelong resident of this area, he was born in Portsmouth, a son of Joseph 
Anthony Messina, now of New York City, and the late Mrs. Margaret Walters 
Messina. He was the husband of Mrs. Katherine L. Messina.
He formerly played baseball at Wilson High School and was a member of Ingleside 
Sports Club and Kempsville Manor Golf Course. He owned the Beach Boulevard Esso 
Station.
He was a production control man of the Overhaul & Repair Department at the 
Norfolk Naval Air Station and a former vice president of the Naval Air Station 
Employees and Welfare League.
He was a veteran of World War I and the Korean War. Besides his father and 
widow, surviving are three sons, John Joseph Messina Jr., Michael Paul Messina 
and David Anthony Messina of Norfolk; a sister, Mrs. Anne Woolard of Norfolk; a 
brother, Joseph Anthony Messina Jr. of Detroit; and his maternal grandmother, 
Mrs. Anna Walters of Portsmouth.
The Rosary will be recited in H. D. Oliver Funeral Apartments Sunday at 7:30 
p.m. A funeral service will be conducted in Christ the King Catholic Church 
Monday at 10 a.m., with burial in St. Mary’s Cemetery.


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