Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Porter, Johnnie J. Drake, 1970 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ JOHNNIE JO DRAKE PORTER NEWSOMS - A funeral service for Mrs. Johnnie Drake Porter was conducted Thursday* at 2:30 p.m. in W.J.M. Holland & Sons Funeral Chapel by the Rev. Harry Bunch. Burial was in Southampton Memorial Park. Pallbearers were Billy O’Berry, Graham O’Berry, Bernard O’Berry, Carl Ray Howell, Bobby Porter, and Roy Blythe. Mrs. Porter, 81, died Monday afternoon in a Suffolk nursing home. She was the wife of Jeannie L. Porter* and a daughter of John Henry and Mrs. Josephine Bishop Drake. She was a member of Mt. Horeb Methodist Church. Besides her husband, surviving are two sons, J.L. Porter Jr. of Newsoms and James D. Porter of Franklin; five daughters, Mrs. Carol Hill of Boykins, Mrs. R.B. O’Berry of Newsoms, Mrs. Stanley Blythe, Mrs. John D. Rountree, and Mrs. Ernest R. Howell of Franklin; two sisters, Mrs. S.E. Whitfield of Handsom and Mrs. Lewis Boone of Portsmouth; three brothers, Emmett Drake of Franklin, John Carroll Drake of Suffolk, and Elliott Drake of California; 15 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. [Johnnie Jo (DRAKE; Mrs. Jenie L.) PORTER, d. Mar 1970*, Suffolk, age 81, interred in Southampton Memorial Park (Christus I, Plot 79**), "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Mar. 12, 1970] [*Phrasing "was ... Thursday" seems to indicate the funeral was Mar. 5, and that she d. 2 Mar 1970.] [**Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project gives husband's name as "Jenie L." (1888-1984).] 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/p636j2ob.txt