Southampton-Isle of Wight County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bunch, Joseph B., 1955 

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Last Rites Friday For Joseph Bunch 

  FRANKLIN - Funeral services will be held Friday for Joseph B. [sic; C.] 
Bunch at the W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral chapel. 

  Bunch, 67, a farmer in Isle of Wight County near Franklin for half a 
century, died yesterday in a Washington, D.C., hospital.  He had been ill 
for a short while. 

  Last rites will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Friday by the Rev. Ira D. Hudgins, 
pastor of Franklin Baptist Church, and the Rev. R.D. Stephenson, retired 
Baptist minister who is supplying pulpits in Portsmouth.  Burial will be in 
Poplar Springs [sic; Spring] Cemetery. 

  Bunch, a member of the Franklin Baptist Church, is survived by three 
daughters, Mrs. Viola Bernice Buglio, of Pocasset, Mass.; Mrs. Violet Louise 
Hopper, of Philadelphia, and Mrs. Gladys M. Hobson, of Chevy Chase, Md.; seven 
grandchildren, three great-grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews. 

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Joseph Bunch Rites Tomorrow 

  FRANKLIN - Funeral rites for Joseph B. Bunch will be held Thursday at 2:30 
p.m. at the W.J.M. Holland and Sons funeral chapel instead of Friday as 
announced yesterday. 

  The funeral company said late yesterday the date had been changed. 

  In addition to survivors listed in yesterday's story, Bunch is survived by 
a sister, Mrs. Martha M. Lowe, of Suffolk. 

  Bunch, a farmer who lived in Isle of Wight County near Franklin for 50 
years, died Monday in Washington, D.C. 

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JOSEPH CARROLL BUNCH 

  Franklin, Feb. 17 - Funeral services for Joseph C. Bunch, who died Monday in 
Washington, were conducted Thursday at 2:30 p.m. in the W.J.M. Holland and 
Sons Chapel by the Rev. Ira D. Hudgins, pastor of Franklin Baptist Church. 
Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery.  Pallbearers were Jack W. Holland, Aggie 
Joyner, Harry Vick, Rudolph Rogers, Dorsey Lowe, and Cliff Copeland. 


Joseph Carroll BUNCH, retired Isle of Wight Co. farmer, 
b. 13 Apr 1887, Southampton Co., 14 Feb 1955, Bethesda, Montgomery Co., MD, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 3, Section A, Plot 15B*), Franklin, 
   17 Nov 1960, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 33, No. 39, Tues., Feb. 15, 1955, p. 2; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 33, No. 40, Wed., Feb. 16, 1955, p. 2; 
"Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Fri., Feb. 18, 1955, p. 36, 
   text posted with Find a Grave Memorial #113879567 

*Additional information: 

Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project,
   Poplar Spring list:
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx3.txt 

A photo of his gravestone - added by Natalie Padgett - is also posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #113879567. 

His wife's obit ("Tidewater News," Sep. 2, 1954) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b520l2ob.txt 


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