Nansemond County-Suffolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Cohoon, Willis E., 1960 

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WILLIS EVERETT COHOON

DEL. W.E. COHOON, DIES IN SUFFOLK

    Suffolk, Nov. 28 - (AP) - Del Willis E. Cohoon, veteran member of the 
Virginia House of Delegates, died Monday afternoon in his office here.

    The legislator, who represented the city of Suffolk and Nansemond county in 
the lower chamber, had been in ill health for some time. He was 58.

   The Nansemond-Suffolk rescue squad was unable to revive Delegate Cohoon, who 
apparently suffered a heart attack.

   The legislator was born in Montgomery, Ala., April 8, 1902. He was educated 
in Virginia public schools, Alabama Polytechnic Institute and Virginia Military 
Institute.

   He was president of the Suffolk-Nansemond County Bar Association in 1937 and 
vice president of the Virginia State Bar Association in 1947.  He served as 
chairman of the Virginia Recodification Commission in 1944-48. He was for the 
same period a member of the Virginia Advisory Legislative Council.

   He was chairman of the Democratic Executive committee of the city of Suffolk, 
and a member of the Democratic state central committee at the time of his death.

   In the period 1933-1954 he was associate judge of the Civil and Police and 
Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court at Suffolk. He was a delegate to the 
national Democratic conventions in 1944 and 1948.

   He served in the House of Delegates in the period from 1940 to 1947 and from 
1952 until his death.

   He was a member of the Episcopal Church, American Legion, Elks, Masons and 
Shrine.

   He was married to the former Miss Thelma Lee Bryant of Suffolk, by whom he is 
survived. There were no children. He was the son of Mrs. Thomas W. Cohoon of 
Suffolk and the late Mr. Cohoon.

   In Richmond, Governor Almond said Mr. Cohoon "served his beloved Commonwealth 
of Virginia with great distinction during his 15 years as a member of the House 
of Delegates and in other capacities. Virginia has lost a tried and trusted 
public servant."

   A funeral service will be held at noon Wednesday in Cedar Hill Cemetery.


Hon. Willis E. COHOON, Delegate for Nansemond Co., 
b. 8 Apr 1902, Montgomery, AL, d. 28 Nov 1960, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block D, Lot 101*), Suffolk, 30 Nov 1960, 
"The Richmond (VA) Times Dispatch," Nov. 29, 1960, p. 10 

*His parents are buried in the same lot. 
   Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_a.txt 

a possible portrait appears online, in the Library of Virginia (LVA) and 
   Suffolk Public Library's Hamblin Studio Photograph Collection (1909-1979). 
   Search the LVA catalog for Subject "Cahoon, Willis": 
   http://www.lva.virginia.gov 


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