Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Towill, John William July 20, 1941 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Dorothy Strawhand http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00034.html#0008405 December 31, 2023, 5:32 pm Norfolk Virginian Pilot July 21, 1941 TOWILL, JOHN WILLIAM - At the residence, No. 432 West Nineteenth Street, Sunday, July 20, 1941, at 7:50 o'clock a.m., JOHN WILLIAM, husband of Mrs. Janie Ghiselin Towill and son of the late Matthew T. and Mrs. Bettie Blake Towill, in the 69th year of his age. Services at the chapel of the H.D. Oliver Funeral Apartments, No. 1501 Colonial Avenue, TUESDAY AFTERNOON at 2:30 o'clock. Friends of the family are invited to attend. Interment, Elmwood Cemetery. ****************** John William Towill, aged 68, husband of Mrs. Janie Ghiselin Towill and son of the late Matthew T. and Mrs. Bettie Blake Towill, died at the residence, 432 West Nineteenth Street, yesterday morning at 7:50 o'clock. Mr. Towill was a native of Middlesex County, Va. and a resident of Norfolk for the past 10 years. He was a member of Christ and St. Luke's Church and Union Lodge No. 60, A.F. & A.M., of Baltimore, Md. Mr. Towill was a traveling representative of the Standard Pharmaceutical Corporation Besides his wife, Mrs. Janie Ghiselin Towill, he is survived by four sisters, Miss Angie H. Towill, of Norfolk; Mrs. W.E. Vellines, of Hinton, W.Va.; Mrs. William Cox, of Kilmarnock, Va. and Mrs. D.L. Hazelhurst, of Dallas, Tex.; one brother, Thurman B. Towill, of Richmond, Va. and several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be held at the chapel of the H.D. Oliver Funeral Apartments, 1501 Colonial Avenue, Tuesday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock, with the Rev. Taylor Willis, rector of Christ and St. Luke's Church, officiating. Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/t/towill10002nob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/vafiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb