Nansemond County-Bristol City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....McAnge, William N. Jr., 1940 

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WILLIAM NORMAN McANGE, JR. 

ILLNESS IS FATAL TO SUFFOLK MAN - FUNERAL HELD FOR W.N. McANGE, WIDELY KNOWN 
BUSINESS LEADER 

   Suffolk, Sept. 1 - Burial services for William N. McAnge, Jr., widely 
known business man and civic leader in Virginia, who died in Bristol after a 
two-week illness, were held on Sunday afternoon in Cedar Hill Cemetery. 

   The funeral services for Mr. McAnge who had made his home in Bristol for 
a number of years were held at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, Bristol, on 
Saturday afternoon at 3 o'clock by the Rev. Mr. Sanderson, rector of the 
church, in which Mr. McAnge had taken an active interest. 

   The Rev. Edward P. Miner, of Norfolk, conducted the burial services and 
read the hymn, "Now the Laborer's Task is O'er."  The casket was covered in a 
pall of ascension lilies and gypsophila and there were hundreds of floral 
tributes, sent from friends and business associates all over the country. 
The body was brought of Suffolk on a private car on the Norfolk & Western 
Railway and was accompanied by Mrs. Penelope Smith McAnge, widow of Mr. 
McAnge; his son,  Thomas Riddick McAnge; W.G. Griffin, executive vice 
president of the Inter-Mountain Telephone Company, with headquarters at 
Bristol; A.E. Reynolds, general commercial and traffic manager; W.G. Snapp, 
general auditor; A.U. Meadows, general plant manager; C.S. Carter, director, 
all of Bristol; R.C. McCann, director of the company, of Richmond; J.T. 
Howard, Leonard Hall, Dr. Thomas Bradley, J.M. Barker, Jr., James Baird, 
Mrs. W.C. Griffin, Mrs. A.E. Reynolds and Mrs. A.U. Meadows, of Bristol, and 
Carrie Bell Johnson and Henry Wisdon, of Bristol. 

          SERVICE AT 4 O'CLOCK 

   The funeral party arrived at 8 o'clock and the body was taken to the home 
of Mrs. W.N. McAnge, mother of Mr. McAnge, in North Main Street, until the 
burial service at 4 o'clock. 

   Active pallbearers were J.T. Withers, Lem P. Jordan, J. B. Pruden, Frank 
A Holladay, George Eberwine, F.B. Day, of Franklin; Jack W. Nurney and S.B. 
Carnes. 

   Among the designs sent were those from the Bristol Rotary Club; 
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company, of Washington and Richmond; 
Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Company , Atlanta, Ga.; East Coast 
Utilities, Warsaw, Va.; Graybar Electric Company, Roanoke and Richmond; 
Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Company, Chicago; American Automatic Electric 
Company, Chicago; Reliable Electric company, Chicago; Strombert-Carlson 
Telephone Company, Rochester; U.S. Independent Telephone Association, 
Chicago; Virginia Independent Telephone association; Virginia State Chamber 
of Commerce, Richmond; Virginia Polytechnic Institute, Blacksburg; Tech 
Alumni, Blacksburg; Dominion National Bank, Bristol, Va.; Bristol Theatre 
Corporation, Bristol. Tenn.; First National Bank, Bristol, Tenn.; Milligan 
College, Bristol, Tenn. 

   Hundreds of friends of Mr. McAnge attended the services at Bristol from 
Atlanta, Knoxville, Nashville, Dayton, Ohio; Chicago, Ill.; Washington, 
D.C.; Richmond, Charlottesville, Roanoke and from Bristol and the 
surrounding country. 


William Norman MCANGE, Jr., businessman, 
d. 30 Aug 1940, Bristol, age 58, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block F, Lot 93), Suffolk, 1 Sep 1940, 
"The Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Sep. 1, 1940 

*His parents are buried in the same lot. 
   Cedar Hill list, an extension of the Southampton County 
   Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/cemeteries/cedar_m.txt 

His mother's (donated, 1946) obit is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/m252c1ob.txt 


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