Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Floyd, Murdock E. Sr., 1956 

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MURDOCK ERASTUS FLOYD

MURDOCK FLOYD DIES IN SUFFOLK AT RESIDENCE

   Suffolk, June 28 - Murdock E. (Bob) Floyd, Sr., 51, son of Mrs. Sarah 
Waters Floyd, of Fairmont, N.C., died tonight at his residence, 223 Oakdale 
Terrace.

   Besides his mother, he is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mary Whitely Floyd, of 
Suffolk; three sons, Murdock E. Floyd Jr., Arthur Wallace Floyd, and Walter 
Francis Floyd, all of Suffolk; five sisters, Mrs. Dewey B. Leggett, Mrs. 
Elbert Hardin, Mrs. Horace Atkinson, Mrs. Carloes Sealey, all of Fairmont, 
N.C., and Mrs. E.E. Swartz, of San Diego, Calif; two brothers A.S. Floyd, of 
Lakeview, S.C., and Brooks I. Floyd, of San Francisco, Calif., and a number of 
nieces and nephews.

   He had been Suffolk manager of the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Co., since 1938.

   He was affiliated with the Oxford Methodist Church, member of the Suffolk 
Elks Lodge 685, Kiwanis Club, Cosmopolitan Club, and a member of the Board of 
Directors of that club; member of the Suffolk Chamber of Commerce, the TPA, 
Lodge 340 AF and AM, Davis Hunt Club of Sebrell, Va., and the P.D. Hunt Club 
of the State of North Carolina.

   The body was taken to the R.W. Baker Funeral Home pending arrangements.


Murdock E. "Bob" FLOYD, Sr., Pepsi-Cola bottling plant manager, 
NC native, d. 28 Jun 1956, Suffolk, age 51, 
interred in Holly Lawn Cemetery*, Suffolk, 
"The Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), June 28, 1956 

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

a 1942 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 "Floyd, M.E.": 
   http://www.lva.virginia.gov/ 


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Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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