Southampton-Nansemond County-Suffolk-Portsmouth City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Harrison, Nurney J., 1980 

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NURNEY J. HARRISON 

   Portsmouth - Nurney J. Harrison, 86, of 341 Douglas Ave., retired 40 year 
employee of Portsmouth Transportation Co., died Thursday in a hospital.

   He retired from the company in 1960.  He was the husband of the late Mrs. 
Bessie Sadler Harrison and an Army veteran of World War I.  He was born in 
Southampton County. He was a member of Tucker Swamp Baptist Church, Zuni.

   Survivors include four sisters, Mrs. Ora Lee, Mrs. Hattie Deans, Mrs. Sarah 
Scott and Mrs. Leclaire Jones of Norfolk; and nieces and nephews.

   A funeral will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. in Tucker Swamp Baptist Church at 
Zuni by the Revs. J. Waverly Horne and John W. Crocker.  The body will be in 
church Saturday at 1 p.m.  Burial will be in Holly Lawn Cemetery, Suffolk with 
Snellings Funeral Home, Portsmouth Chapel in charge.


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NURNEY J. HARRISON 

   Portsmouth - Funeral services for Nurney J. Harrison, 86, were held 
Saturday in Tucker Swamp Baptist Church in Zuni, by the Revs. J. Waverly Horne 
and John W. Crocker.  Burial was in Holly Lawn cemetery, Suffolk.

   A retired 40 year employee of Portsmouth Transit Co., Harrison died 
Thursday in a hospital.

   He retired from the company in 1960.  He was the husband of the late Bessie 
Sadler Harrison and an Army veteran of World War I.  He was born in 
Southampton County.

   He was a member of Tucker Swamp Baptist Church, Zuni.

   Survivors include four sisters, Mrs. Ora Lee, Mrs. Hattie Deans, Mrs. Sarah 
Scott and Mrs. Leclair Jones of Norfolk; and Nieces and nephews.


Nurney J. HARRISON, of Portsmouth, retired bus driver, Army veteran of WW-I, 
b. Southampton Co., d. 18 Sep 1980, age 86, 
interred in Holly Lawn Cemetery*, Suffolk, 20 Sep 1980, 
"The Norfolk (VA) Ledger Dispatch," Sep. 18, 1980; 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Sep. 22, 1980, p. 7 

*Holly Lawn list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/hollyln.txt 

His parents are buried in Tucker Swamp Baptist Church. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Tucker Swamp list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/tckrswp.txt 


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