Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Johnson, A. Shelbourne, 1976 

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ASHLEY SHELBOURNE JOHNSON

   Mr. A. Shelbourne (Sid) Johnson, 72, of 1915 Virginia road, died Sunday 
morning at Duke Hospital in Durham, N.C.  Funeral services will be conducted at 
11 a.m. Tuesday at Home Moravian Church. Burial will be in Salem Cemetery. He 
was born January 2, 1904, in Franklin County* to Albert Sidney and Elma Whitfield 
Johnson. He spent his early life in Franklin, attended VMI, and the University 
of Va.  He moved to Winston-Salem in 1925 and worked for R.J. Reynolds Tobacco 
Company 44 years retiring in 1969 as the factory manager of 12 Cigarette 
Factory. He was a member of the Oldtown Club and a member of Home Moravian 
church where he had been on the Board of Trustees as well as being an usher. 
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Eleanor Willingham Johnson of the home; two 
daughters, Mrs. Austin M. Francis of New York City and Mrs. W. David McKinnie of 
Atlanta, Ga.; three grandchildren; two sisters, Miss Helen Johnson of Hampton, 
Va. and Mrs. George W. Conwell of Franklin, Va.  The family will receive friends 
at Vogler’s Main Street from 7 to 9 p.m. Monday and request any memorials may be 
made to the Moravian Home for the Aging or to the Winston-Salem Foundation.

[*this reads "Franklin County" but it should be just Franklin, Virginia. (bs)] 

[Ashley Shelbourne "Sid" JOHNSON, of Winston-Salem, NC, 
 b. 2 Jan 1904, Franklin, d. 28 Nov 1976, Durham, NC,  
 interred in Salem Cemetery, Winston-Salem, NC, 30 Nov 1976, 
 "The Winston-Salem (NC) Journal," Nov. 29, 1976] 

[file transcribed by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
 and re-formatted by File Manager.]