Southampton-Mecklenburg County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Rainey, John E., 1946 

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RAINEY FOUND DEAD IN HOTEL 

Attributed to Natural Causes 

  John Evans Rainey, 67, employed by the Camp Manufacturing Company in 
Franklin, was found dead in his room at the Busy Bee, 10 a.m. from what 
investigators called "apparently natural causes." 

  The body waa examined by Dr. E.C. Joyner, city coroner, who discovered no 
evidence of foul play.  Chief Lawrence B. Butler and Investigator H W. Churn 
checked the corpse for the police. 

  No autopsy will be performed, said Chief Butler, and the body was turned 
over to W.J.M. Holland and Sons, funeral directors.  

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JOHN EVANS RAINEY

   John Evans Rainey, 57* years of age, for many years an employee of the Camp 
Manufacturing Co., working at the time of his death at Camp No. 7 near 
Suffolk, died during the night of a heart attack in a Suffolk hotel Saturday, 
October 5.  He was the son of the late Thomas and Mrs. Ella Taylor Rainey of 
Mecklenburg County, and was a member of Thomas Memorial Baptist Church, 
Drewryville.

   He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Arlene Roberts Rainey of Suffolk; four 
sons, Otis, John E., Jr., and Ryland Rainey of Franklin and Junius T. Rainey 
of Suffolk; three daughters, Mrs. Ruby Keetch of Newport News, Miss Eunice and 
Rebecca Rainey of Suffolk; three brothers, three sisters, five grandchildren 
and a number of nieces and nephews.

   Funeral services were held from the Holland Funeral Home in Franklin Monday 
afternoon at 3 o’clock conducted by the Rev. R.D. Stephenson of the Franklin 
Baptist Church, with burial following in Poplar Spring Cemetery.  The 
pallbearers were: N.T. Poarch, F.P. Smith, James Lankford, Herman Warren, 
Willie Baker and Walter Huntington.


John Evans RAINEY (Sr.), Camp Manufacturing employee, 
b. 6 Jul 1888, LaCross, Mecklenburg Co., d. 5 Oct 1946, Suffolk, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 61*), Franklin, 
   7 Oct 1945, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 24, No. 163, Sat., Oct. 5, 1946, p. 3; 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Oct. 11, 1946, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

D.Cert. 24552 (Chuckatuck #252) 


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