Southampton-Nansemond County-Newport News City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Horne, Benjamin G. Jr., 1940 

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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 


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