Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Johnson, Alvin R., 1948 

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ALVIN ROOSEVELT JOHNSON

SOLDIER WHO DIED IN FRANCE TO BE BURIED SUNDAY IN HOME SOIL

   Pfc. Alvin R. Johnson, aged 32, who entered the U.S. Army on April 22, 
1944, and was killed in northern France on August 3, 1944, will be buried 
Sunday, May 23.

   The remains, accompanied by a military escort, arrived in Boykins via 
the Seaboard Air Line Railway and were taken to the Purviance Funeral Home, 
where they will lie in state until Sunday.

   Funeral services will be conducted Sunday afternoon at two o’clock from 
Clarksbury Methodist Church, with Rev. W.L. Sturtevant officiating assisted 
by Rev. N.B. Habel.  Burial will be in the Capron cemetery.  Full military 
honors will be rendered by the National Guard battery from Franklin.  The 
Boykins-Branchville Post No. 276, American Legion, will attend in a body. 
Active pallbearers well be R. Edward Ferguson, Jr., Marion Lee, Herman Warren, 
Joseph Johnson, Moncure and Vernon Francis, Luther Edwards and Harold Harvey.

   Alvin Johnson was the son of Mrs. W. Lewis Worrell, who was formerly Mrs. 
Emma J. Johnson, and the late John H. Johnson, Jr., of the Boykins community. 
Besides his mother, he is survived by three brothers, Marshall Johnson of 
Emporia, Dalton Johnson of Roanoke Rapids, N.C. and Clyde A. Johnson of 
Richmond; three sisters, Mrs. M.T. Washington of Norfolk, Mrs. Gladys Moore of 
Richmond, and Mrs. Zeb Pendergrass of Beckley, W. Va.


PFC Alvin Roosevelt JOHNSON, US Army, 
Southampton Co. native, KIA 3 Aug 1944, northern France, age 32, 
interred in Capron Cemetery*, 23 May 1948, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), May 21, 1948, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Capron list (C-20): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/capron.txt 

His father's obit ("Tidewater News," Jan. 6, 1928) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/j525j1ob.txt 

His widowed mother remarried, but she is buried with Alvin's father. 
   Her obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 21, 1957) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/w640e1ob.txt 


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