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DATE: Friday, July 14, 1995                  TAG: 9507140392
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RAYMOND E. JOHNSON SR.

Raymond Earl Johnson Sr., 52, of the 600 block of Shillelagh Road, died July 11, 1995, in Norfolk.

He was born in the Portlock section of South Norfolk and was a foreman and brickmason for over 35 years for Sprinkle Masonry. He was a member of Bricklayers Union local (NU)2. He was a Baptist.

Survivors include his wife, Margaret Marie Johnson; two daughters, Deanna Marie Eisel and Dana Suzanne Conner, both of Chesapeake; one son, Raymond Earl Johnson Jr. of Chesapeake; three sisters, Helen Sands, Shirley Stout and Ruthie Wilkins, all of Chesapeake; four brothers, John Norman Johnson Jr. of Virginia Beach, Gary Johnson of Chesapeake, Richard Johnson of Bumpass and Russell Johnson of Chesapeake; and three grandchildren, John Frederick Eisel Jr., Ashley Marie Conner and Brittany L. Conner.

A funeral service will be held 2 p.m. Saturday at Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home, Great Bridge chapel. Burial will be in Chesapeake Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral home today from 7 to 8:30 p.m.

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