Southampton-Brunswick County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bishop, Calvin T., 1970 

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CALVIN T. BISHOP 

  FRANKLIN - Calvin Turner Bishop, 49, of 400 First Ave. died Wednesday 
morning in Medical College of Virginia, Richmond, after a long illness. 

  A native of Rawlings, Brunswick County, he was a son of the late James T. 
and Mrs. Nina Settle Bishop and the husband of Mrs. Ruby Beamon Bishop. 

  He was a naval aviator in World War II and was in the construction business 
27 years.  He was a member of Lebanon United Methodist Church, Rawlings. 

  He was a graduate of Randolph-Macon College. 

  Besides his widow, surviving are a daughter, Miss Mary Carol Bishop, a son, 
Herbert Taylor Bishop, and a sister, Mrs. Marie Bishop Daniel, all of 
Franklin.  A funeral service will be held Friday at 11 a.m. in W.J.M. Holland 
& Sons Funeral Home by the Rev. Ira D. Hudgins and the Rev. Robert Fridley. 
Burial will be in Poplar Spring Cemetery. 

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CALVIN TURNER BISHOP

   A funeral service for Calvin Turner Bishop was conducted at 11 a.m. Friday 
in W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home by the Rev. Ira D. Hudgins and the Rev. 
Robert D. Fridley.  Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were Robert Howell, Howard Cotton, Dr. William Settle, W.E. 
Jones, Jesse Harrison, Marvin M. Revell, Steven Bishop and Claud Vernon 
Bishop, Jr.

   Bishop, 49, of 400 First Ave., died Wednesday morning in Medical College of 
Virginia, Richmond after a long illness.

   A native of Rawlings, Brunswick County, he was a son of the late James T. 
and Mrs. Nina Settle Bishop and the husband of Mrs. Ruby Beaman Bishop.

   He was a naval aviator in World War II and was in the construction business 
27 years.  He was a member of Lebanon United Methodist Church, Rawlings.

   He attended Randolph Macon College for two years.

   Besides his widow, surviving are a daughter, Miss Mary Carol Bishop, a son, 
Herbert Taylor Bishop and a sister, Mrs. Marie Bishop Daniel of Midlothian.


Calvin Turner BISHOP, of Franklin, in construction, WW-II naval aviator, 
b. 5 Mar 1921, Rawlings, Brunswick Co., d. 30 Dec 1970, Richmond, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 3, Section B, Plot 13*), Franklin, 
   1 Jan 1971, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 48, No. 312, Thurs., Dec. 31, 1970, p. 10; 
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mon., Jan. 4, 1971, p. 5 

*Additional information: 

Buried with his in-laws, Herbert Wharton & Mary Lee (COBB) BEAMAN. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx3.txt 

Find a Grave Memorial #113912490 [no photo] 

His widow (1920 - 1979) 2m. William Franklin HARDY. 
   They are buried in Annex 2, Plot 155C: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

D.Cert. 70-036331 

His parents are buried in Lebanon United Methodist Church Cemetery, 
   Brunswick Co. 

His mother's obit ("Smithfield Times," Aug. 3, 1949, p. 4) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/surry/obits/b210n1ob.txt 


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