Nansemond County-Newport News City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Dumville, Benjamin B., 1956 

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BENJAMIN B. DUMVILLE* 

BENJAMIN B. DUMVILLE DIES AT 76 IN  PENNA. 

  Blue Ridge Summit, Pa. - Benjamin B. Dumville, 76, formerly of Suffolk, died 
this morning at his home in Blue Ridge Summit, Pa., where he has been a 
resident for eight years.

   He was the son of the late Benjamin and Frances Lawrence Dumville of 
Suffolk.

   A former employee at the Newport News Shipbuilding Drydock Company, he 
helped with the construction of the Panama Canal and during World War II he 
was the supervisor of construction of Landing Barges at Evansville, Ind. 
Later he was employed as supervisor of Liberty Ship construction at Long 
Beach, Calif.

   He was a member of the Methodist Church in Suffolk.

   He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Emma Grigg Curtis Dumville, of Blue Ridge 
Summit; one daughter, Mrs. John C. Ewers of Washington, D.C.; one son, 
Benjamin C. Dumville of Brooklyn and a step-son, Essex Griffin Dumville of 
Rockville Centre, L.I., N.Y.; five grandchildren and one great grandchild.

   Funeral services will be held tomorrow Monday, June 25 at 2 p.m. at the 
Riverside Funeral Home Chapel, Newport News.

   Interment will be in the Green Lawn Cemetery, Newport News.

*"Dunville" in original corrected to Dumville throughout. 

Benjamin B. DUNVILLE, former Suffolk resident, retired shipbuilder, 
d. 24 Jun 1956, Blue Ridge Summit, PA, age 76, 
interred in Green Lawn Cemetery, Newport News, 24 Jun 1956, 
"The Suffolk (VA) News Herald," June 24, 1956 

His parents are buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk - Block D, Lot 47. 
   Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County 
   Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_d.txt 

His mother's obit ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," June 30, 1928, p. 7) 
   is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/d514f1ob.txt 


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