Nansemond-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Everett, Percy G., 1954 

************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm
************************************************

PERCY GILLETTE EVERETT

   Funeral services for Percy Gillette Everett, 68, who died suddenly at his 
home in Suffolk at 10:15 o’clock Friday morning, September 10, were held on 
Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at the funeral home of R.W. Baker & Co.

   Officiating at the funeral were Rev. C. Roy Everett, pastor of Providence 
Methodist Church, Richmond, a nephew of the deceased, and Rev. A. Woodrow 
Laine, pastor of Oxford Methodist Church, Suffolk, of which Mr. Everett was 
a member.

   Burial was in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk.  Serving as pallbearers were 
M.E. Barrett, W. Quentin Brothers, Joe Everett, H.M. Hayes, Loftus Hitchens, 
Jr., Thomas Marshall, Ralph E. Murphy, Otis L. Railey, J.S. Rollings, and 
Emmett S. White.

   Mr. Everett was born in the Statesville community, this county, a son of 
the late Caleb R. Everett and Mrs. Betty Gillette Everett.  He attended the 
Franklin Academy and was a star pitcher on its baseball team.  For nearly 50 
years he was manager of the grocery department of the Suffolk Feed & Fuel 
Company until his retirement in 1951.

   Surviving are two daughters, Misses Gillette Everett and Martha Moore 
Everett, and a son P.G. Everett, Jr., all of Suffolk; three daughters, Marle, 
Nancy and Betty Everett of Suffolk; three brothers, C.R. Everett of 
Statesville, Frank E. Everett of Sunbeam, and Ben W. Everett of Norfolk; and 
a sister, Mrs. Ashby Worrell of Statesville.


Percy Gillette EVERETT, retired Suffolk Feed & Fuel grocery dept. manager, 
b. Statesville, d. 10 Sep 1954, at home, Suffolk, age 68, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block H, Lot 35*), Suffolk, 12 Sep 1954, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Sep. 16, 1954 

*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 parents are buried in an EVERETT family cemetery, on Statesville Rd. 
   SCHS Cemetery Project, Miscellaneous Cemeteries, Vol. 5 (V-25): 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/miscvol5.txt 

His father, Caleb "Chick" EVERETT, invented/developed a number of agricultural 
   devices, including a peanut planter (with Murfreesboro, NC blacksmith 
   Fenton F. FERGUSON). 
   (Thomas Parramore. "Southampton County, Virginia," p. 184) 


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/nansemond/obits/e163p1ob.txt