Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Joyner, Gosper L.T., 1956 

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Gosper Lee Joyner To Be Buried Tuesday 

  ZUNI - Funeral Services will be conducted tomorrow at 3 p.m. by Rev. R.A. 
Richardson, at the Purviance Funeral Chapel at Wakefield for Gosper Lee 
Joyner, 63, who died at a Franklin hospital yesterday after a brief illness. 

  He was a farmer of the Zuni community, a native of Southampton County and 
a member of the Tucker Swamp Baptist Church. 

  He is survived by one son, James L. Joyner of Zuni; three daughters, Miss 
Gladys Joyner of Norfolk, Mrs. Willard Duke of Walters and Mrs. Lloyd Cutchins 
of Franklin; one brother, William M. Joyner of Ivor; one sister, Mrs. Earl 
Fulford of Norfolk; eight grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. 

  Burial will be in the Tucker Swamp Cemetery. 

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GOSPER LEE JOYNER 

  Gosper Lee Joyner, 63, a farmer of the Zuni community, died early Sunday 
morning, July 29, in Raiford Memorial Hospital after a brief illness.  He was 
a native of Southampton County and a member of Tucker Swamp Baptist Church. 

  He is survived by one son, James L. Joyner of Zuni; three daughters, Miss 
Gladys Joyner of Norfolk, Mrs. Willard Duke of Walters and Mrs. Lloyd Cutchins 
of Franklin; one brother, William M. Joyner of Ivor; one sister, Mrs. Earl 
Fulford of Norfolk; eight grandchildren and several nieces and nephews. 

  Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Purviance 
Funeral chapel at Wakefield with Rev. R.A. Richardson officiating.  Mrs. Nan 
Bland Seeley sang "Sunrise".  Burial was in Tucker Swamp Cemetery. 

  Active pallbearers were Alvah Wills, Roger Britt, Harold West, Junior Bowden, 
Byron Bowden, Sr., and Philip Worrell.  Honorary pallbearers were friends of 
the family. 


Gosper Lee Thomas JOYNER, Zuni farmer, 
b. 2 Jun 1893, Southampton Co., d. 29 Jul 1956, Franklin, 
interred in Tucker Swamp Baptist Church Cemetery*, 31 Jul 1956, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 34, No. 180, Mon., July 30, 1956, p. 1; 
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 2, 1956, Sect. I, p. 7 

*Additional information: 

Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Tucker Swamp list (TS-24): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/tckrswp.txt 

A photo of his grave - added by Martha Fontaine Byrum - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #201184822, which gives Gospher. 

No D.Cert. found. 

His wife's obit ("Tidewater News," Feb. 3, 1950, p. 9) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/j560l9ob.txt 

His father's obit ("Smithfield Times," Oct. 30, 1941) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/j560w12o.txt 


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