Nansemond-Norfolk County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Knight, Vernon E., 1959 

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VERNON KNIGHT 

Vernon E. Knight Funeral Tomorrow 

  Funeral services for Vernon Erstene Knight will be conducted Tuesday at 4 
p.m. at the Hill Funeral Home by the Rev. Melvin Dollar.  Burial will be in 
Holly Lawn Cemetery. 

  Mr. Knight, 54, died Sunday at 4:15 a. m. of a heart attack at his home, 193 
South Main St. 

  A salesman for the Maryland Biscuit Co., of Norfolk, he had lived in Suffolk 
since 1958. 

  He lived here before in 1926 and later moved to Richmond where he was 
employed with Miller and Rhodes for 20 years.  In 1948 he moved to South 
Norfolk where he was in mercantile business until he went with the sales staff 
of the Maryland Biscuit Company in 1957. 

  He was the son of Mrs. Lala Briscoe Knight and the late Nichols [sic*] V. 
Knight.  He was a member of the Rosemont Christian Church of South Norfolk. 

  He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Kesler Blanchard Knight, two brothers, 
Stanley M. Knight and James N. Knight, both of Suffolk. 


Vernon Erstene KNIGHT, salesman, 
b. 1 Feb 1905, Berkley, Norfolk Co., d. 15 Mar 1959, at home, Suffolk, 
interred in Holly Lawn Cemetery*, Suffolk, 17 Mar 1959, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 37, No. 63, Mon., Mar. 16, 1959, p. 3 

*Additional information: 

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

A photo of his gravestone - added by Ken Campbell - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #132974746. 

His parents are also buried there.  Their gravestone spells his father's name 
   "Nicholas" (1876 - 1955), but most records give Nichols.  

D.Cert. 6748 (Suffolk #15) 

Delayed B.Cert. 1955 #8896 gives Vernon Earsten. 

His first wife Eular Marie (VAUGHAN) KNIGHT (1904 - 1993) is buried adjacent 
   to her parents in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk - Block I, Lot 76. 
   Cedar Hill list, an extension of the SCHS Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_j.txt 


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