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 [sic*], and is survived by his parents; his 
fiancee, 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. 

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CARD OF THANKS 

  The family of the late B.G. Horne, Jr., take this method to thank their 
friends and relatives for the many favors done them in their sore bereavement, 
especially for flowers and the use of automobiles.  The family. 


Benjamin Goodman HORNE, Jr., NNS&DD employee, 
b. 28 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, 
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Vol. 35, No. 42, Fri., July 19, 1940, 
   pp. 1 & 3 

*Additional information: 

Site not known (Nov 2023) to the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} 
   Cemetery Project.  D.Cert. 15868 (Newport News #329) gives "South Hampton 
   Co, July 14, 1920." 

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

A photo of his gravestone - added by Hixburg23958 - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #129162925. 

His parents, B.G. Sr. & "Maggie" Margaret Williams (HOLLAND) HORNE, are buried 
   in Block E, Lot 6. 

Birthdate from B.Cert. 62865 (Berlin & Ivor #3). 

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 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 

His fiancee (1920 - 2017) m. "Jack" John Levy PULLEY [Jr.], 4 Dec 1944 in 
   Newport News (#801).  They are buried in Peninsula Memorial Park, Newport 
   News. 


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and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. 

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