Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Cross, J. Paul, 1945 

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RITES HELD FOR JOHN P. CROSS 

Services At Bethlehem 

  SUFFOLK, June 21. - Funeral services for John Paul Cross were conducted at 4 
p.m. yesterday at the R.W. Baker and Co. Funeral Home by Rev. F.L. Baker, of 
Oxford Methodist Church, and Rev. R.E. Brittle, of the Bethlehem Church. 

  The pall was of white gladioli, red roses, blue delphinium and baby’s 
breath, and the Oxford Church choir sang, "Old Rugged Cross," and "Lead Kindly 
Light," accompanied by Mrs. Faye Ware. 

  Rev. Baker read the poems, "House By the Side Of the Road" and "Why 
Shouldn’t I?" 

  Active pallbearers were W.F. Whitley, George Smith, Leon Saunders, J.A. 
Foster, J.R. Vann, Raymond P. Boyer, Major Banton and George Hudgins. 
Honorary pallbearers were members of the board of stewards of Oxford Church, 
members of the Suffolk Lodge of Elks and W.T. Myrick, Dempsey Frazier, Robert 
Winborne and R.W. Daughtrey. 

  The rites at the grave in Cedar Hill Cemetery were in charge of Suffolk 
Lodge No. 685 B.P.O. Elks. 


John Paul CROSS, salesman for B.L. Saunders, 
b. 15 May 1878, Gates Co., NC, d. 18 Jun 1945, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery*, Suffolk, 20 Jun 1945, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 30, No. 285, June 21, 1945, p. 8, col. 3 

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

Find a Grave Mem. #92953307 

Birthplace from D.Cert. 12444 (Suffolk #192) 

His father, Edwin S. CROSS, was a Confederate veteran, having served in 
   as a private in Co. E, 33rd NC Infantry. 


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