Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Howell, Etta M. Johnson, 1920 

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ETTA MAE JOHNSON HOWELL

MRS. WILLIAM H. HOWELL

   Mrs. Etta Johnson Howell, wife of W. Herman Howell, died at her home near 
Franklin on Saturday March 13th, after a brief illness of pneumonia. 

   Mrs. Howell, (Etta, as the writer had known her for many years) was a young 
woman of most excellent qualities. She was of a bright, happy disposition and 
had many friends. Possessing the charming graces of Christian womanhood, she 
was an attractive maiden, a charming matron, and a devoted wife. She was a 
consistent member of Sycamore Baptist Church, with which she united after her 
marriage. 

   It seems tragic indeed that such a bright young life should be cut off, 
especially when we remember that but a short time had elapsed since she and her 
husband began housekeeping, and that she leaves a bright baby boy four months 
old with no mother's bosom on which to pillow his little head. 

   Besides her husband and son, William H. Howell, Jr., she leaves her parents, 
Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Johnson of Deans, Va.; four sister, Misses Willie and Virgie 
Johnson, Mrs. J.E. Hoggard of Kempsville, and Mrs. Tyler Edwards of Franklin, 
and two brothers, Grady Johnson of Deans, Va. and C.O. Johnson of Norfolk. 

   The body was laid to rest in Poplar Spring Cemetery, Franklin, Monday, 
March 15, her 27th birthday. Many beautiful floral designs bore fragrant 
testimony of the esteem in which she was held by her friends. Funeral services 
were conducted by Rev. L.F. Paulette of Holland, Va., her former pastor, 
assisted by Rev. C.W. Scarborough of Franklin. 

   The pallbearers were Alfred Cobb, Linwood Moore, J. Powell Eley, Linwood 
Cobb, J.A. Weede, Jesse McClenny, C.R. Vaughan and Dewey Howell. 


[Etta Mae (JOHNSON; Mrs. W. Herman Sr.) HOWELL, 15 Mar 1893 - 13 Mar 1920, 
 bd. Poplar Spring Cemetery, Franklin, 15 Mar 1920, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), 19 Mar 1920] 

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