Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Johnson, Elma T. Whitfield, 1970 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ ELMA TERISSA WHITFIELD JOHNSON MRS. ALBERT JOHNSON Mrs. Albert S. Johnson, 94, of 213 Robin Hood Rd., Franklin, mother of Mrs. Helen K. Johnson of Hampton died Monday at home. Also surviving are another daughter, Mrs. George Warren Conwell of Franklin, with whom she made her home; two sons, A. Shelbourne Johnson of Winston-Salem, N.C. and Leigh W. Johnson of Franklin; six grandchildren and two great- grandchildren. Holland Funeral Home, Franklin, is in charge. Graveside service will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesday in Franklin Cemetery. ******************************************************************************* ELMA TERISSA WHITFIELD JOHNSON A funeral service for Mrs. Elma Whitfield Johnson was conducted at 4 p.m. Wednesday in Poplar Spring Cemetery by the Rev. Ira D. Hudgins. W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home was in charge. Pallbearers were J.C. Story, Marion Whitfield, Franklin Whitfield, Whitfield Munden, Felton Johnson, Jesse E. Johnson, J.H. Holland and Emerson Jones. Mrs. Johnson, 94, died Monday evening in the home of a daughter, Mrs. George W. Conwell, on Robin Hood Road. A native of Southampton County, she was the widow of Albert Sidney Johnson and a daughter of George Washington and Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Johnson Whitfield. She was a member of Franklin Baptist Church. Besides Mrs. Conwell, surviving are a daughter, Helen Catherine Johnson of Hampton; two sons, Ashley Shelborne Johnson of Winston-Salem, N.C. and Leigh Whitfield Johnson of Franklin; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Elma Terissa (WHITFIELD; Mrs. Albert S.) JOHNSON, Southampton Co. native, d. 7 Dec 1970, at daughter's home, Franklin, age 94, interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 83*), Franklin, 9 Dec 1970, donated obit, newspaper unknown; "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 10, 1970 *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," Dec. 8, 1939, p. 5) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/j525a2ob.txt Her parents are buried in a WHITFIELD family cemetery, "Graz'n Acres," Ivor Rd. SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 7 (VII-46): http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol7.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/j525e1ob.txt