Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2025 All Rights Reserved USGenNet Data Repository Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page: Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/ =========================================================================== Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded. =========================================================================== The Salisbury (N.C.) Post Monday, 14 June 1965 Dr. VERNON JOHNS, Dies, Washington DR. VERNON JOHNS, Baptist minister and former president of Virginia Seminary, died in Washington, D.C., Friday . Funeral services will be held today in Peters- burg, Va. DR. JOHNS was the husband of the former ALTONA TRENT, daughter of the late DR. W. J. TRENT, long- time president of Livingstone College. The JOHNS family lived at 106 Shore Street, Petersburg, Va. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Progress-Index Petersburg, Va Sunday, 4 July 1965 Funeral services for the late DR. VERNON JOHNS, who died recently in Washington, was held at the Tabernacle Baptist Church, with Dr. F. J. Boddie officiating. The eulogy was given by Dr. Samuel F. Gandy, Dean of Theological Seminary at Howard University, prayer and scripture was done by the Revs. Wyatt Tee Walker and Gilmore Williams, formerly of the Gillfield and Zion Baptist Churches. A solo, "The Lord's Prayer" was sung by Aldrich Adkins, son-in-law of DR. JOHNS. Pallbearers were the three sons and three sons- in-law of the deceased. Burial was in the family plot, Prince Edward County. Funeral arrangments were in charge of the Bland's Funeral Home. ===========================================================================