Southampton-Isle of Wight-Surry County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Joyner, Lawrence F., 1972 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ LAWRENCE FOSTER JOYNER SMITHFIELD - A funeral service for Lawrence Foster Joyner, 60, of Smithfield will be held Thursday at 2 p.m. at Colonial Funeral Home in Smithfield by the Rev. Walter Schwitzerlett and Rev. R.E. Brittle. Interment will be in Poplar Spring Cemetery, Franklin. Lawrence F. Joyner died Monday night in Southampton Memorial Hospital. A native of Surry, he was the husband of Mrs. Vera Presson Joyner and a son of the late Willie C. and Ida Johnson Joyner. He was employed by ITT Gwaltney, Smithfield. Besides his widow, surviving are three daughters, Mrs. Shirley Kitchen, Suffolk; Mrs. Mitchell Morris, Franklin, Miss Elaine Joyner, Smithfield; six sons, Lawrence Richard Joyner, Norwalk, Conn.; Jesse Lee Joyner, Stanford, Conn.; SP-4 Bruce L. Joyner, U.S. Army, Germany; Lawrence Vernon Joyner, Wakefield; and Michael E. Joyner, both of Smithfield; three sisters, Mrs. Maggie Pope, Capron; and Mrs. Ruth O’Clair and Mrs. Virginia Smith, both of Franklin; and 14 grandchildren. Lawrence Foster JOYNER, of Smithfield, ITT Gwaltney employee, Surry Co. native, d. 18 Sep 1972, Franklin, age 60, interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 147*), Franklin, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Sep. 21, 1972, Sect. A, p. 6 *Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt His parents are buried in Annex 3, Section B, Plot 18B. SCHS Cemetery Project, Poplar Spring list: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx3.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/j560l8ob.txt