Nansemond County-Newport News City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gentile, Dr. Antonio, 1939 

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GENTILE RITES AT CEDAR HILL 

Funeral Cortege To Arrive Here About 3:30 P.M. Today 

  Funeral services for Dr. Antonio Gentile, brilliant young surgeon of Buxton 
Hospital, Newport News, who died suddenly Thursday, St. Andrew's Episcopal 
Church, Hilton Village.  The service was conducted by the Rev. Willard 
Entwisle, pastor, assisted by Dr. Floyd Putney, pastor of the Newport News 
First Baptist Church. 

  Burial will be here this afternoon at Cedar Hill Cemetery upon the arrival 
of the funeral cortege at 3:30.  The Rev. Herbert N. Tucker, rector of St. 
Paul's Episcopal Church, will assist in conducting the burial service. 

  Active pallbearers include: Dr. Russell Von Buxton, Dr. Robert E. Pierce. 
Dr. M.B. Beecroft, Dr. Robert A. Davis, Samuel C. Johnson, Norman E. Drexler, 
Arthur Brittenham [sic; Brittingham], and Marshall Andrews. 

  Honorary pallbearers will include: P.M. Burton, Dr. O. Richardson Joyner, 
Dr. Edward C. Joyner, Dr. O.R. Yates, William M. Birdsong, T.R. Myrick, Jesse 
H. Harrell, M. Erskine Watkins, Frank C. Patrick, Frank Krize, and other 
friends of the family. 

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Final Rites Held For Dr. A. Gentile 

  HILTON VILLAGE, Nov. 20. - Funeral services for Dr. Antonio Gentile, young 
physician of Newport News and a native of Suffolk, were conducted Saturday 
afternoon at St. Andrew's Episcopal Church here with the rector, the Rev. 
Willard Entwisle, assisted by Dr. Floyd Putney, pastor of the Newport [News] 
First Baptist Church, and the Rev. H.N. Tucker, rector of St. Paul's Church, 
Suffolk. 

  The casket was covered with a pall of American Beauty roses and lilies of 
the valley, and there were hundreds of handsome designs, many from the various 
organizations, clubs and fraternities in which Dr. Gentile held membership. 

  Burial was in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk, with rites by Suffolk Lodge 
Elks, No 685. 

  Active pallbearers were Dr. Russell Von Burton, Dr. Robert E. Pierce, Dr. 
M.B. Beecroft, Dr. Robert A. Davis, Samuel C. Johnson, Norman E. Drexler, 
Arthur Brittingham, of Newport News, and Marshall Andrews, of Suffolk. 


Dr. Antonio "Tony" GENTILE, Newport News surgeon, creator of "Mr. Peanut," 
b. 8 Aug 1903, Philadelphia, PA, d. 16 Nov 1939, Hilton Village, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block U, Lot 26*), Suffolk, 18 Nov 1939, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 17, No. 204, Sat., Nov. 18, 1939, p. 1; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 17, No. 205, Mon., Nov. 20, 1939, p. 6 

*His parents, John Alexander & Pulceria (DiSANTO) GENTILE, 
   are also buried there.  Cedar Hill list, an extension of the 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_g.txt 

His widow Darcy Ann (HAM) GENTILE (1900 - 1988).  2m. Henry Bradley GRIFFIN. 
   They are buried in the same lot. 


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