Dr. John Lawrence Swinson Jr.

DR. JOHN L. SWINSON JR., 82, DIED THURSDAY, JAN, 11, 2001. HE WAS BORN IN EDGECOMBE COUNTY, JULY 3, 1918, SON OF THE LATE JOHN LAWRENCE SWINSON SR. AND LILLIAN POWELL SWINSON. HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS WIFE, HARRIETTE JOHNSON SWINSON, WHO DIED JAN. 9, 2001; AND HIS SISTERS, LILLIAN MARTIN AND MAXINE BELLAMY.
DR. SWINSON WAS A MEMBER OF LAKESIDE BAPTIST CHURCH, ONE OF THE FIRST MEMBERS OF THE ROCKY MOUNT LUNCHEON LIONS CLUB, ROCKY MOUNT SHRINE AND MASONIC LODGE, AND A MEMBER OF THE ELKS WHERE HE WAS A PAST EXALTED LEADER.
SURVIVING HIM ARE HIS DAUGHTER, BARBARA BURCH, OF ROCKY MOUNT; GRANDCHILDREN, SUSAN VICK AND HER HUSBAND, MICHAEL OF ROCKY MOUNT, AND JONATHAN BURCH, OF ROCKY MOUNT; GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN, EMILY VICK AND ANNA REESE VICK; AND A SISTER, MARJORIE ASKEW, OF NEWPORT NEWS, VA.
GRAVESIDE SERVICES WERE HELD AT 11A.M. FRIDAY, JAN. 12, 2011, AT MAUSOLEUM CHAPEL AT ROCKY MOUNT MEMORIAL PARK.
MEMORIALS MAY BE MADE TO ROCKY MOUNT LIONS CLUB.
ARRANGEMENTS ARE BY JOHNSON FUNERAL HOME, SUNSET AVENUE.