Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Coleman, H. Gordon Jr., 1972 

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HENRY GORDON COLEMAN JR.

   BOYKINS - A funeral service for Henry Gordon Coleman Jr., 80 of Boykins, 
was held Saturday, August 12, at 3 p.m., at the Boykins Baptist Church by 
the Rev. James T. Campbell and the Rev. William Hudson.

   Burial was in the Beechwood Cemetery in Boykins, with McDowell Funeral 
Home, Boykins, in charge arrangements.

   Active pallbearers were Maj. Robert Faizer, Reese Anderson, Ray E. Foster, 
Frank W. Gearing III, Madison B. Drewry, W. Hugh Powell and M. Sasek.

   Coleman died Thursday morning, August 10, at Southampton Memorial Hospital, 
after a brief illness.

   A native of Granville County, N.C, he was the husband of Mrs. Frances White 
Coleman, and a son of Henry G. and Mrs. Ina J. Wilkerson Coleman (before her 
death in 1960 he was married to Mrs. Edna Earle Powell Coleman).

   He lived in the Boykins area for the past 61 years.  He was a salesman for 
the Frank Tea and Spice Co. and Harwell Brothers & Gibbs Brokerage Co. of 
Petersburg.  He was also formerly an agent with the Seaboard Airline Railroad.

   He was a past chairman of the board of deacons of the Boykins Baptist 
Church and had been superintendent and a teacher of its Sunday school for many 
years.  He was also a past master of the Boykins Masonic Lodge #287, and a 
member of the Traveler’s Protective Assn.

   Besides his widow, surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Frank W. Gearing Jr. of 
Harrisonburg; a son, Malcolm P. Coleman of Boykins; two brothers, Charles W. 
Coleman of Ft. Layderdale, Fla.; two sisters, Mrs. Charles B. Todd of 
Montgomery, Ala.; and Mrs. Margaret L. Coleman of Durham, N.C.; five 
grandchildren and three great grandchildren.


Henry Gordon COLEMAN, Jr., of Boykins, salesman, former Seaboard R.R. agent, 
Granville Co., NC native, d. 10 Aug 1972, Franklin, age 80, 
interred in Beechwood Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 58*), Boykins, 
   12 Aug 1972, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 24, 1972, B-5 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Beechwood list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/beechwd.txt 

His first wife's obit ("Tidewater News," Aug. 8, 1960, p. 4) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c455g1ob.txt 


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