Nansemond County-Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Kilby, John R., 1930 

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JOHN R. KILBY, SUFFOLK NATIVE, DIES IN NORFOLK 

Was Prominent In Banking Circles of Latter City and Brother of Bradford 
   and Miss Hilah Kilby; Buried Here Today. 

  John Richardson Kilby, prominent banker and brother of Bradford and Miss 
Hilah Kilby, of this city, died at his residence, 1114 Graydon avenue, 
Norfolk, yesterday morning at 8:45 o'clock. 

  Mr. Kilby was born in Suffolk in 1880, but has made Norfolk his home for 
about 24 years. 

  He received his degree at Randolph-Macon College and studied at Bryant and 
Stratton Business College, Baltimore.  He then accepted a position as 
assistant cashier with the National Bank of Commerce, in Norfolk.  Later he 
identified himself with the First and Citizens' National Bank of Elizabeth 
City, N.C., and from there returned to Norfolk to become associated with the 
Norfolk Clearing House Association here he remained two years.  From this post 
he was elected vice-president of the Virginia National Bank, which office he 
held to the time of his death. 

  Mr. Kilby was a member of the Masons, Shrine and Knights Templar.  He was a 
son of the late Wilbur J. and Harriet Brown Kilby.  [He is survived by his 
wife, Mrs. "Nellie" Halsey Kilby]; one daughter, Mrs. Herbert S. Duckworth, 
and two grandchildren, Eloise Kilby Duckworth and John Albert Duckworth, all 
of Norfolk, and one sister, Miss Hilah Kilby, and one brother, Bradford Kilby, 
of Suffolk. 

  Funeral services will be held at the residence this afternoon at 3:30 
o'clock, and will be conducted by the Rev. Ruffin E. Jones, D.D., rector of 
St. Andrew's Episcopal Church. 

  Interment will be in Cedar Hill cemetery at about 5 o'clock this afternoon. 
Those who will bear the casket are W.B. Wyatt, Jr., Ed Hill, Alvin Howell, 
W.F. Cummings, Ralph Drewry, M.E. Walker, Melvin Payne and Lewis Bress.  The 
honorary pallbearers are H.G. Whitehead, A.W. Brock, John H. Rogers, Chas. L. 
Kaufman, Toy D. Savage, M.T. Blassingham, R.S. Cohoon and J.B. Dey, Jr. 

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J. R. KILBY BURIED 

  NORFOLK, May 19. -(AP)- Funeral services for John Richardson Kilby, 
prominent banker and active in various fraternal organizations who died 
yesterday morning, were being conducted at the residence, with Rev. Ruffin E. 
Jones, rector of St. Andrew's church, officiating.  Burial was in Cedar Hill 
cemetery with Masonic rites accorded at the grave.  Mr. Kilby had been in ill 
health for more than a year and a half, his death occuring after an illness 
of two weeks. 


John Richardson KILBY, banker, 
b. 14 Nov 1880, Nansemond Co., d. 18 May 1930, at home, Norfolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block C, Lot 14*), Suffolk, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 8, No. 50, Mon., May 19, 1930, pp. 1 & 8; 
donated obit, publication unknown, 
   clipping posted with Find a Grave Memorial #90628126, 
   by Cheryl Chatfield Thompson 

*Additional information: 

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

A photo of his gravestone - added by Steve Poole - is also posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #90628126. 

His parents & step-mother are buried in the same lot. 

His widow's obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," Mar. 6, 1962, p. 2) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/k410e1ob.txt 


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