Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pace, John J., 1970 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ JOHN JAMES PACE A graveside funeral service for John James Pace was conducted at 3 p.m. Saturday, July 25 in Poplar Spring Cemetery by the Rev. Robert D. Fridley of High Street United Methodist Church. W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Home was in charge. Pallbearers were Thomas L. Perry, William E. Lankford, James E. Henry, Dr. Darden W. Jones, J. Floyd Briggs, Dr. Carl Hellberg, R.C. Councill Jr., and R.B. Hill, Jr. Pace, 76, died Thursday afternoon in Norfolk General Hospital after a long illness. A native of Franklin, he was the husband of Mrs. Sarah Pickard Pace and a son of Willie Thomas and Mrs. Meta Parker Pace. He was a member of High Street Methodist Church, Franklin Masonic Lodge 151, Khedive Shrine Temple, and Grice Commandery 16 of Knights Templar. He formerly was in the wholesale plumbing and heating business. Besides his widow, surviving are two daughters, Mrs. Graf A. Boepple of Los Angeles and Mrs. David C. Rector of Rockville, Md.; a son, John James Pace Jr. of Union City, Tenn.; two sisters, Miss Lelia Pace and Mrs. J. Fenton Matthews of Franklin; and two brothers, Willie T. Pace Jr. of Franklin and Emmette H. Pace of Wheeling, W. Va. [John James PACE, formerly in the wholesale plumbing & heating business, Franklin native, d. 23 Jul 1970, Norfolk, age 76, interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 3, Sect. B, Plot 81A*), Franklin, 25 Jul 1970, "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 30, 1970] [*Southampton County Historical Society, 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/p200j1ob.txt stn