Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Hume, Gilbert L., 1936 

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GILBERT L. HUME

   Suffolk, March 2, - Funeral services for Gilbert L. Hume, widely known 
lumber man, and member of the North Carolina and the Southern Pine 
Associations, and former vice president of the Montgomery Lumber Company, who 
died suddenly Saturday morning at the Ricks Hotel, Rocky Mount, N.C., were 
conducted this afternoon at 3:30 o’clock at his home on Brewer Avenue, 
Suffolk, by the Rev. Herbert N. Tucker, rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church.

   The hymns, "Ten Thousand Times Ten Thousand" and "Thou Knowest, Lord," were 
read at the service by Mr. Tucker. The casket had for a pall Ascension lilies. 
There were many handsome floral tributes form various organizations and lumber 
firms with which Mr. Hume had been affiliated in his long and brilliant career 
in this industry.

   Burial was in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

   Active pallbearers were R.L. Woodward, Jr., Holmes Butler, Willis Riddick, 
Edward Walton of Norfolk, J. Thornton Withers, Harvey M. Holland, James H. 
Corbitt, and Hersey Woodward, Jr.

   Scores of friends, many from other cities, served as honorary pallbearers.

Gilbert L. HUME, of Suffolk, lumberman, 
Buffalo, NY native, d. 29 Feb 1936, Rocky Mount, NC, age 59, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block H, Lot 87*), Suffolk, 2 Mar 1936, 
donated obit, publication unknown 

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


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