Southampton-Nansemond County-Newport News City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Horne, Benjamin G. Jr., 1940 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ BENJAMIN GOODMAN HORNE, JR. IVOR MAN KILLED IN SHIPYARD ACCIDENT Benjamin G. Horne, Jr. son of Mr. and Mrs. B.G. Horne, Sr. of Ivor met with instantaneous death on Friday, July 12, when a rack of steel collapsed at the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co., where he was employed. He was born December 25, 1916, and is survived by his parents; his fiancée, Miss Mary Howard May of Ivor; two sisters, Mrs. Pat Hardy of Norfolk and Miss Doris Lee Horne of Ivor; two brothers, Clyde B. Horne of Newport News and Fred W. Horne of Norfolk; a paternal grandmother, Mrs. Geo. W. Horne of Newport News; a maternal grandfather, J.P. Holland of Norfolk and a number of aunts and uncles. He was a member of Tucker Swamp Baptist Church and a member of the Baraca Sunday School Class of Ivor Baptist Church. The funeral services were conducted from the home on Sunday afternoon by his pastor, Rev. George Kissinger, III. The hymns "In the Garden" and "Sometime We’ll Understand" were sung by Mrs. Homer Whitley and others of Windsor. The active pallbearers were: Shelton Babb, Walter West, Russell Andrews, Franklin Bryant, John Pulley, Woodrow Pulley, Burton Edwards and Hurley Taylor. The honorary pallbearers were chosen from friends of the family. Benjamin Goodman HORNE, Jr., Newport News Shipbuilding & Dry Dock Co. employee, b. 25 Dec 1916, Southampton Co., killed in workplace accident, 12 Jul 1940, Newport News, interred in the family cemetery*, 14 Jul 1940, marked in Holly Lawn Cemetery**, Suffolk, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 19, 1940 *site not known (Nov 2016) to the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project. His Death Certificate (#15868) gives "South Hampton Co July 14, 1920." **His parents are also buried there. Holly Lawn list, an extension of SCHS Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/hollyln.txt His parents appear in the 1940 Census on Highway 460, Ivor, but they resided in Isle of Wight Co. on 1 Apr 1935. In 1930 the family lived on Pinner St., Suffolk. His father had become a barber. In 1920 the family rented a farm on the Zuni-Courthouse Rd., Isle of Wight Co. His father is buried in Holly Lawn Cemetery, Suffolk. His paternal grandparents are buried at Tucker Swamp Baptist Church. SCHS Cemetery Project, Tucker Swamp list (TS-22): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/tckrswp.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by William J. DelMonte (JazzyBill@aol.com) and Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/h650b1ob.txt