Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Johnson, G. Joseph, 1967 

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GLEAMOUS JOSEPH JOHNSON

   FRANKLIN - A funeral service for Gleamous Joseph Johnson is scheduled for 
Thursday, Aug. 24 at 11 a.m. in the Franklin Baptist Church by Dr. Ira D. 
Hudgins.  Burial will be in Poplar Spring Cemetery.  The body will be taken 
from W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home to the church at 10 a.m. Thursday.

   Pallbearers will be W.R. Butler, Reuben Whitley, Herbert Vick, C.H. 
Dougherty, Cecil Porter, Harry Jones, Carl Bowen and Jesse McClenny.

   Johnson, 73, a retired grocery operator, died in his home Monday after a 
long illness.

   A native of Middlesex, N.C. he was the husband of Mrs. Eula Lee Faison 
Johnson and a son of John W. and Mrs. Peninia Eure Johnson.

   He was a member of Franklin Baptist Church, its Bruner Men’s Bible Class, 
and Franklin Masonic Lodge 151.  He was an Army veteran of World War I and a 
past commander of Southampton Barracks 1162.

   Besides his widow, surviving are a daughter, Mrs. D.B. Gassler Jr. of 
Richmond and two grandchildren.


Gleamous Joseph JOHNSON, retired grocery operator, Army veteran of WW-I, 
Middlesex, NC native, d. 21 Aug 1967, at home, age 73, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 3, Section B, Plot 39*), Franklin, 
   24 Aug 1967, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 24, 1967, p. 7 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
    Poplar Spring list: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx3.txt 


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