Southampton County-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Johnson, Caroline V., 1956 

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CAROLINE VANCE JOHNSON 

   Miss Caroline V. Johnson, 79, a former resident of Southampton County, died 
Tuesday, January 10, at 1 p.m. at the home of her sister, Mrs. W. Frank 
Robertson, 5336 Edgewater Drive, Norfolk.

   A daughter of the late William and Mrs. Sallie Flowers Johnson, she was a 
native of Scotland County*, N.C., and had been a resident of Norfolk for nine 
years.

   In addition to her sister, she is survived by a sister-in-law, Mrs. James 
A. Johnson of Franklin; five nieces, Mrs. J. Floyd Briggs, Jr., of Franklin; 
Mrs. W.A. Wright, Jr., of Port Washington Long Island, N.Y.; Mrs. J.M. Kilgore 
of Philadelphia; Mrs. S.S. Trautham of Birmingham, Ala.; and Mrs. Ethel J. 
Smith of Thomasville, Ga., and two nephews, James A. Johnson, Jr., of Richmond 
and W.A. Johnson of Savannah, Ga.

   Funeral services will be conducted in the chapel of the W.J.M. Holland & 
Sons Funeral Home Friday at 2:30 p.m. by Rev. Ira D. Hudgins, pastor of the 
Franklin Baptist Church, Rev. R.D. Stephenson, former pastor, and Rev. Harold 
A. Malmborg, pastor of the Freemason Street Baptist Church, Norfolk.  Burial 
will be in Poplar Spring Cemetery.

   Active pallbearers will be William A. Robertson of Norfolk, Dr. Burton J. 
Ray, R.J. Tucker, George Watkins , J.F. Briggs, Herbert Cobb, C.C. Vaughan, 
3rd, and G.E. Pillow.

*Scotland Co., NC, was formed from Richmond Co. in 1899. 

Caroline "Carrie" Vance JOHNSON, formerly of Southampton Co., 
Scotland Co., NC native, d. 10 Jan 1956, at sister's home, Norfolk, age 79, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 88*), Franklin, 
   13 Jan 1956, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Jan. 19, 1956, Section I, p. 7 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project,
   Poplar Spring list:
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

Her mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Mar. 12, 1930, p. 5) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/j525s5ob.txt 


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