Nansemond-Southampton County-Suffolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Crow, Dr. Hubert D., 1957 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ DR. HUBERT DINWIDDIE CROW Dr. H. D. Crow, 45, Buried July 23rd In Suffolk, Va. Funeral services for Dr. Hubert Dinwiddle Crow, 45, health director for the Tri-County Health District, who died suddenly about 2:30 A.M. Monday morning at his home, 128 Causey Avenue, Suffolk, were held Tuesday afternoon at 4 P.M. in the Suffolk Presbyterian Church. The Rev. Dr. B.R. Lacy, chaplain of Hampden-Sydney College, and the Rev. Mahlon H. Elliott, pastor of the Oxford Methodist Church, conducted the services. Burial was in Holly Lawn Cemetery. Members of the Suffolk Rotary Club and of the Tri-County Medical Society served as honorary pallbearers. He was a son of the late Edmund Burwell Crow and Mrs. Mary Dinwiddie Crow, of Charlottesville. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Pattie Gregg Crow; a son, Hubert Gregg Crow, both of Suffolk: two sisters, Miss Nan B. Crow, of Charlottesville, and Mrs. James T. Gill, of Richmond; a brother, Edmund Burwell Crow. Jr., of Wilson, N.C. and several nieces and nephews. Since 1955 Dr. Crow had been health director in Suffolk for the second time. He was graduated from the Medical College of Virginia in 1938. From 1938 to 1940 he did private practice in Buckingham County. He then became public health director for Southampton County, now part of the Tri-County District. From 1942 until 1947 he was director of the Tri-County Health District in Suffolk, and afterwards for a year took a post graduate course at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland, where he received the degree of Master of Public Health. From 1948 until 1955 he was director of the Health Department area around Fredericksburg and returned to Suffolk and continued to serve as director of the district that includes Suffolk, Nansemond, Southampton and Isle of Wight counties. He was a member of the Suffolk Presbyterian Church, of the Church's Board of Elders and a teacher of the Men's Bible Class, a member of the Obici Memorial Hospital staff, the Virginia Medical Society, the Tri-County Medical Society, the Tuberculosis Association and the Suffolk Rotary Club. ****************************************************************************** HEALTH OFFICER DIES SUDDENLY Several persons from the county on Tuesday afternoon attended the funeral in Suffolk of Dr. Hubert Dinwiddie Crow, 45, director of the Tri-county Health District, who died unexpectedly at the residence in Suffolk on Sunday morning, July 21 at 2:30 o’clock. Dr. Crow was twice director of the Tri-County Health District, serving from 1942 to 1947 and again from 1955 until his death. After leaving the area in 1947 he took a year of post-graduate work in John Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Md., where he received the degree of Master of Public Health. From 1948 to 1955, when he returned to Suffolk as successor to Dr. W.H. Michael, he was director of the health district centered around Fredericksburg. A son of Mrs. Mary Dinwiddie Crow of Charlottesville and the late Edmund Burwell Crow, he was graduated from the Medical College of Virginia in 1928. From 1929 to 1940 he engaged in private practice in Buckingham County. He then became health director of Southampton County, now part of the Tri-County District. Services for Dr. Crow were conducted Tuesday afternoon at 4 o’clock at the Suffolk Presbyterian Church, of which he was a member, by Rev. B.R. Lacy, D.D., chaplain of Hampden-Sydney College, and Rev. Mahlon H. Elliott, pastor of Oxford Methodist Church. Burial was in Holly Lawn Cemetery. Dr. Hubert Dinwiddie CROW, director of the Tri-County Health District, b. 4 Dec 1911, Raleigh, Wake Co., NC, d. 21 Jul 1957, at home, Suffolk, interred in Holly Lawn Cemetery*, Suffolk, 23 Jul 1957, "Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 34, No. 9, July 25, 1957, p. 1, col. 5; "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), July 25, 1957 *Holly Lawn list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/hollyln.txt His parents are buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh. (Find a Grave Mem. #73146644 &c.) Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/c600h2ob.txt