Nansemond-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Holland, Lee P., 1934 

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L. P. HOLLAND DIES HERE LAST NIGHT 

  Lee Pretlow Holland, 49, prominent attorney and active for many years in 
fraternal and civic affairs of the city, died last night at the Lakeview 
hospital following a short illness.  He had recently returned to the city 
after an absence of several months and was taken sick shortly after his 
arrival. 

  Mr. Holland, who was a graduate of Washington and Lee, was a World War 
veteran and a past commander of the local post of the American Legion with 
which organization he was actively interested. 

  He was the son of Col. E.E. Holland and the late Mrs. Otelia Lee Holland, 
and is otherwise survived by one sister, Mrs. Gerald Creekmore, of New 
Orleans, one niece and one nephew, and a number of cousins living in Suffolk, 
Nansemond county and Norfolk. 

  Funeral services will be held at the Christian church tomorrow afternoon at 
3 o’clock and will be attended by the American Legion post in a body.  The 
Rev. J.G. Truitt will officiate and will be assisted by the Rev. Herbert N. 
Tucker.  Burial will be in Cedar Hill cemetery. 

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LEE PRETLOW HOLLAND 

   Lee Pretlow Holland, only son of Colonel E.E. Holland of Suffolk, State 
Senator for this district, died suddenly at Lakeview Hospital Tuesday night 
following an illness of several months.  Mr. Holland, who was 49 years of age, 
an alumnus of Washington and Lee University, World War veteran and an attorney 
of Suffolk, had been a frequent visitor in Franklin, being related to several 
Franklin people through his mother, the late Mrs. Otelia Lee Holland, of the 
well-known Lee family of Isle of Wight County, as well as to the Pretlow 
families of this county through his paternal grandmother.

   Mr. Holland is survived by his father and one sister, Mrs. Gerald Creekmore 
of New Orleans, and by a large and prominent family connection.  Funeral 
services were held from the Suffolk Christian Church yesterday afternoon at 3 
o’clock by the Pastor, Dr. John G. Truitt, assisted by Rev. Herbert N. Tucker, 
Rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Suffolk, in the presence of an 
unusually large assemblage.  This from Franklin who attended were: Mr. and Mrs. 
J.F. Bryant, Jr., J.B. Gay, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Bynum Gay, Jr., Mr. and Mrs. J.A. 
Williams, Miss Dorothy Williams, Mr. and Mrs. Everett Bryant, Misses Minnie 
and Fannie Pretlow, Mr. and Mrs. G.G. McCann, Mrs. W.J.M. Holland, W.J.M. 
Holland, Jr., P.R. Camp, J.M. Camp and E.L. Beale.


Lee Pretlow HOLLAND, Suffolk attorney, WW-I veteran, 
b. 2 Sep 1885, Suffolk, d. 27 Nov 1934, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block F, Lot 116*), Suffolk, 3 Jan 1932, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 12, No. 214, Nov. 28, 1934, p. 1, col. 2-3; 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Nov. 30, 1934, p. 1 

*His parents 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 

Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 25833 (Suffolk #327) 

His father had previously been Mayor; he was later elected to Congress. 
   His obit ("Richmond Times-Dispatch," Oct. 24, 1941) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/h453e4ob.txt 

His mother's obits ("Norfolk Virginian," July 17-20, 1897, p. 6) 
   are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/h453s9ob.txt 


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