Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Griffin, Johnnie Jr., 1971 

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JOHNNIE GRIFFIN, JR. 

   A funeral service for Johnnie Griffin Jr. was held Friday at 3 p.m. in 
W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home by the Rev. Darden Battle.

   Burial was in Sycamore Baptist Church Cemetery.

   Pallbearers were: Jimmy Babb, Leroy Bradshaw, Gilliam McGee, Jesse 
Coggsdale, Roger Cutchins, Russell Coggsdale, Lacy Howard and Tommy Holland.

   Griffin, 47, of 208 Beale’s Court, died Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. in 
Southampton Memorial Hospital after a long illness.

   A native of Southampton County, he lived here most of his life.  He was a 
son of Mrs. Gurtie Coggsdale Griffin and the late Johnnie Griffin Sr.

   He was in the grocery business.  He was a member of Sycamore Baptist Church.

   Besides his mother, surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Mac Ricks of Pendelton, 
N.C. and a son, Army Spec. 4 Ernest T. Griffin of California.


Johnnie GRIFFIN, Jr., of Franklin, grocer, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 24 Feb 1971, Franklin, age 47, 
interred in Sycamore Baptist Church Cemetery (Row 5, Plot 53; unmarked*), 
   26 Feb 1971, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 1, 1971, p. 5 

*Added to his parents' plot. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 4 (MV-IV-44): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol4.txt 

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," Aug. 5, 1965, p. 2) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/g615j4ob.txt 

Johnnie m. 1 May 1943 Gladys Louise BRYANT {c1925-2003} (So.Co. #71). 
   They must have divorced, for she 2m. 1970, James Theodore WHALIN, in FL; 
   they divorced in 1973, FL.  (Ancestry.com) 
   Her parents, John Lewis & Kate Louise (COGGSDALE) BRYANT, are buried in 
   Southampton Memorial Park - Devotion II, Plot 65. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Southampton Memorial Park list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/somempk.txt 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/g615j9ob.txt