Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Hawa, Naim M., 1946 

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NAIM MELHAM HAWA

JOHN HAWA’S BODY RECOVERED FROM THE RIVER; RITES TUESDAY

   The findings of the body of Naim M. Hawa in the Blackwater River near the 
boat wharf Tuesday, just one week after an unknown white man was seen failing 
from the Seaboard Bridge here, clears up the mystery as to his identity. 
Luther Ricks, Negro fisherman, found the body, and with the help of Captain 
Ward of the tug "Corinthia," towed it to shore where it was taken charge of by 
W.J.M. Holland and Sons, burial services being conducted Tuesday afternoon in 
Poplar Spring Cemetery by the Rev. Father J.O. Schmidhauser of the local 
Catholic parish.  The pallbearers were: Mitchel and Fred Rabil, nephews of Mr. 
Hawa, of Weldon, N.C., Hinson Parker, Harry Steinhardt, Jonah and Allan Soble.

   Mr. Hawa, known to his friends as John Hawa, was a native of Lebanon, 
coming to American in 1913.  Except for a short time spent in Rocky Mount and 
Weldon, N.C., he had made his home in Franklin, where he was a well-known 
merchant and an exemplary citizen with many friends.  Recently his health had 
been poor, and he had been in Raiford Memorial Hospital for a few weeks, and 
more recently in the University of Virginia Hospital.  He was 46 years of age 
and a faithful communicant of the Roman Catholic Church.

   Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Vashti Jones Hawa; two brothers, Beshara 
M. Hawa of Franklin and Caesar Hawa of Lebanon; two sisters, Mrs. F. A. Rabil 
of Weldon, N.C., and sister Laurance Hawa of Lebanon.


Naim Melham "John" HAWA, Franklin merchant, 
Lebanon native, drowned 16 Apr 1946, Blackwater R., Franklin, age 46, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 93/113**), Franklin, 
   23 Apr 1945, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 26, 1946, p. 1 

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

His widow's obit ("Virginian-Pilot," Nov. 2, 2000) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/h000v1ob.txt 


Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by 
Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. 
Additional information from daughter Elizabeth "Betty" Hawa. 

file at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/h000n1ob.txt