Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Reeves, John Samuel March 30, 1953
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Norfolk Virginian Pilot May 22, 1953 
John S. Reeves Dies of Injuries At Suez Canal

John Samuel Reeves, 61, of 3907 Trevillian Street, Broad Creek Village, deck 
engineer of the Texas Oil Company tanker Louisiana, died of head injuries after 
an altercation aboard ship March 30 in Suez, Canal Zone, Egypt.
Details of the set to in the tanker's locker room were not available; but it was 
learned that Reeves died of a cerebral hemorrhage.
A native of Birmingham, Ala., he had made his home in the Norfolk section 35 
years.  Before moving to Broad Creek Village, he resided in Berkley.  He had 
been in the Merchant Marine for many years.  He was a son of Mr. and Mrs. John 
S. Reeves, Sr., and husband of the late Mrs. Myrna A. Harrell Reeves.
Surviving are one son, Hartwell D. Reeves, of Broad Creek Village; one sister, 
Mrs. B. Butcher, of California and nine grandchildren.
The body has been brought to the Sykes Funeral Home, Berkley, where funeral 
services will be conducted tomorrow at 2 p.m.  Burial will be in Riverside 
Memorial Park.

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