Southampton-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Howell, Robert J., 1953 

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ROBERT JORDAN HOWELL

WORLD WAR I VETERAN SUCCUMBS TO ILLNESS

   Robert J. Howell, prominent Franklin businessman and veteran of World 
War I, died at the residence on S. High Street on Monday afternoon, July 6, 
after several months of ill health.

   The deceased was the son of the late Jordan W. and Emma Ellenor Howell of 
Nansemond County. He moved to Franklin in 1919 and was associated in business 
with the late George W. Wade.  For the past several years he had been a 
fertilizer and peanut broker, with an office over Jones Drug Co.’s store.  He 
was a member of the Franklin Baptist Church and its Bruner Bible Class.

   He is survived by his wife, the former Virginia Cobb, to whom he was 
married 30 years ago; and two brothers, Frank E. Howell of Franklin and Dan 
Howell of Suffolk.

   Funeral services were conducted from the residence on Wednesday afternoon 
at 4:30 o’clock by Rev. Ira D. Hudgins, pastor of the Franklin Baptist Church, 
Rev. R.D. Stephenson, a former pastor, and Rev. James W. Turner, pastor of 
High Street Methodist Church.

   Interment was in Poplar Spring Cemetery.  Active pallbearers were J. Floyd 
Briggs, Ernest M. Bryant, B.L. Clark, J. Letcher Eley, Henry F. FitzGerald, 
Edward F. Gilliam, Jack G. Holland and Alfred G. Williams.


Robert Jordan HOWELL, Franklin businessman, Army veteran of WW-I, 
Nansemond Co. native, d. 6 Jul 1953, at home, Franklin, age 60, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 22*), Franklin, 
   8 Jul 1953, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 9, 1953, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 


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