Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Norfleet, William J., 1936 

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WILLIAM JOSEPH NORFLEET

SUFFOLK BUSINESS MAN DIES TODAY IN WASHINGTON CITY

WILLIAM J. NORFLEET, ILL FOR PAST SIX MONTHS, EXPIRES IN HOSPITAL

   William J. Norfleet, 63, prominent Suffolk business man and farmer, died 
at Garfield Memorial hospital, Washington, D.C., at 12:30 p.m. today.

   Ill for the past six months, Mr. Norfleet had been undergoing treatment 
at the Washington hospital for several weeks.

   Funeral arrangements had not been completed early this afternoon.

   Mr. Norfleet was manager of the Norfleet Barrel and Box Company and a 
director of the Suffolk Fertilizer Co., both local manufacturing plants. 
He also operated several large farms located in Nansemond County.

   Member of a widely known Virginia family, Mr. Norfleet spent his entire 
business life in Suffolk and Nansemond County.  He was the son of the late 
N.G. and Mrs. Mary E. Norfleet.

   Surviving Mr. Norfleet are his widow, Mrs. Mary Morris Norfleet; two 
daughters, Misses Lucy Wingfield and Elizabeth Norfleet, all of Suffolk; two 
brothers, N.G. Norfleet of Suffolk and J.H. Norfleet, of Nansemond County; two 
sisters, Mrs. J.B. Cook of Concord, N.C., and Mrs. R.K. Blair, of Charlotte, 
N.C.  Also nine nieces and a nephew: Misses Mary, Margaret, and Kent Blair, of 
Charlotte, N.C.; Mrs. R.M. King, of Concord, N.C.; Mrs. T. Edgar Grace, Mrs. 
Henry C. Barton and Miss Allie H. Norfleet, of Suffolk; Mrs. Douglas Happer 
and Mrs. R.H. Beamon, of Nansemond County; and Dr. W.J. Norfleet, of 
Shreveport, La.


William Joseph NORFLEET, Suffolk businessman & farmer, 
lifelong resident of Nansemond Co., d. 12 Aug 1936, Washington, DC, age 63, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block G, Lot 3*), Suffolk, 
donated obit, publication unknown 

*His parents are buried in Block D, Lot 10. 
   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, 1906) obit is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/n614m1ob.txt 


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and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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