Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Carr, Sion A. Jr., 1983 

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SION ALFORD CARR JR.

   FRANKLIN - A funeral service for Sion Alford (S.A.) Carr Jr., 69, was held 
at 2 p.m. Saturday in Franklin Baptist Church by the Rev. Ira D. Hudgins. 
Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery with Wright Funeral Home in charge.

   Pallbearers were: Jack Camp, William Skipworth, Joe Stewart, Francis Clark, 
Felton Johnson, Jack Forrer, L.E. Edwards, Tom Coggsdale, L.R. (Boss) Pittman 
and Delton Eure and M.W. Williams.

   Carr died Thursday in a hospital.

   A native of Youngstown, Fla., he was a former resident of Wallace, N.C.  He 
attended the University of North Carolina and had retired as manager of lumber 
operations at Franklin Building Products division of Union Camp Corporation.

   Carr was a member and former deacon of Franklin Baptist Church and was a 
member of its Bruner Bible Class.  He was a member of Forks of the River 
Ruritan Club and Franklin Lions Club and its board of directors.  He was a 
member of the past master of Franklin Masonic Lodge 151 and was elected Boss 
of the Year in 1971 by the Franklin Jaycees.

   Survivors include his wife, Virginia Boone Carr; two daughters, Judy C. 
McLemore and Ann C. Stephens, and a son, Sion A. Carr III, all of Franklin; 
three sisters, Mrs. S.S. Fountain of Jacksonville, Fla.  Mrs. A.L. Hux of 
Roanoke Rapids, N.C. and Mrs. Raymond Powell of Hampton; and four 
grandchildren.


Sion Alford "S.A." CARR, Jr., retired manager of Camp lumber operations, 
Youngstown, FL native, d. 27 Jan 1983, age 69, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 121B*), Franklin, 
   22 Jan 1983, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 31, 1983, p. 3 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
    Poplar Spring list: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

His first wife's obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 27, 1980, p. 9A) is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c100m4ob.txt 


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