Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....King, Joseph P. Sr., 1966 

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JOSEPH PUGH KING

   FRANKLIN - A funeral service for Joseph Pugh King Sr. Franklin businessman 
was conducted in Poplar Spring Cemetery, Friday at 11 a.m.by the Rev. Ira D. 
Hudgins assisted by the Rev. Dallas Stallings.  After the graveside service, a 
memorial service was conducted in the Franklin Baptist Church. Holland Funeral 
Home was in charge.

   Pallbearers were G. Hinton Parker, Jr.,  Walter Norfleet, Jr., J.J. Finley 
Jr., Winston M. Brown, Roy Edwards, Felton Johnson, George Brown, Edwin 
Priggen and Joe Gay Bryant.

   King, 78, died early Wednesday morning in Southampton Memorial Hospital 
after an illness of several weeks.

   A native of Bertie County, N.C. he was the husband of the late Mrs. 
Elizabeth Rebecca Barham of Capron and the son of Benjamin Frank and Mrs. 
Katherine Butler King of Bertie County, N.C.

   A member of the Franklin Baptist Church and a veteran of the U.S.N. World 
War I, he was a member of the Franklin Masonic Lodge.

   He was head of the Democratic committee in Franklin and Southampton County.

   He was treasurer of the Franklin Welfare Committee.

   King was co-owner and business manager of The Tidewater News paper until 
1940.

   He was representative of the Mutual Life Insurance Co. of New York and 
owner of the King Supply Co.

   Surviving him are one son, Joseph P. King Jr. of Franklin; one daughter, 
Mrs. Arthur M. Roberts of Brookfield Center, Conn. and  seven grandchildren.


Joseph Pugh KING, Sr., Franklin businessman, Navy veteran of WW-I, 
Bertie Co., NC native, d. 17 Aug 1966, Franklin, age 78, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 4*), Franklin, 
   19 Aug 1966, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Aug. 22, 1966, p. 5 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 

His wife's obit ("Tidewater News," July 28, 1960, Sect. 2, p. 1) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/k520e1ob.txt 


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and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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