Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Howard, John M., 1971 

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JOHN MILTON HOWARD 

   A funeral service for John Milton Howard of Franklin will be held today 
at 2 p.m. in W.J.M. Holland and Sons Funeral Home by the Rev. Ed Thornton 
of Beaver Dam Baptist Church.  Burial will be in Southampton Memorial Park.

   Pallbearers will be Johnnie Lee Scott, Jack Story, Hertford Bryant, W.L. 
Young Sr., Ryland Duck and Braxton Bell.

   Howard, 53, of 409 First Ave., died in his home Tuesday morning after a 
brief illness.

   A native of Bertie County, N.C., he lived in this area most of his life.

   He was a retired fire department employee of the government.

   He was a Baptist, an Army veteran of World War II and a member of 
Delaware Hunt Club.

   He was a son of the late Willie Jackson and Mrs. Mary Coleson Howard.

   Surviving are two sisters, Mrs. R.W. Meade of Franklin and Mrs. Edith 
Nicholson of Portsmouth; and three brothers, Vernon D. Howard of Appomattox, 
and Roy Howard and Lacy Howard of Franklin.


John Milton HOWARD, retired fire department employee, Army veteran of WW-II, 
Bertie Co., NC native, d. 15 Feb 1971, Franklin, age 53, 
interred in Southampton Memorial Park (Devotion II, Plot 64*), 18 Feb 1971, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Feb. 18, 1971, Sect. II, p. 10 

*His mother is also buried there; his bro Roy is in Devotion II, Plot 62. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Southampton Memorial Park list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/somempk.txt 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 18, 1969, p. 3) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/h630m3ob.txt 


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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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