Nansemond County-Suffolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Potter, Lyman H., 1929 

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LYMAN H. POTTER SUCCUMBS TODAY 

Long in Declining Health, Death Early This Morning Claims One of City's 
   Best-Known Employees and Citizens. 

  Funeral services for Lyman Henry Potter, 37 [sic*], who died at 12:30 
o'clock this morning at the Sarah Leigh Hospital, Norfolk, will be conducted 
Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock from the residence, 108 South Broad street, with 
Dr. W.W. Staley, assisted by Rev. H.S. Hardcastle, officiating.  Interment 
will be in Cedar Hill cemetery. 

  Mr. Potter had been in failing health for some time, and had been at the 
Norfolk Hospital since last Saturday.  He was one of the most able of the city 
employees, having been chief clerk to City Manager R.H. Brinkley since 1920. 
He was regarded highly by his fellowmen and his passing will be a great loss 
to the city.  He was before his employment in the services of the city a 
member of the American Expeditionary Forces, serving in France with a company 
of volunteers from this city.  He was for a time employed by the Seaboard Air 
Line Railway.  Mr. Potter had not been at his desk in his office in the 
Municipal building in several months, because of his failing health. 

  All members of the city council and city officials are expected to attend 
the funeral in a body and members of the American Legion are asked to assemble 
at the home at 2:45 o'clock to act as honorary pallbearers.  The fire bell 
tolled during the funeral services, and the entire city force will pay 
respects to their deceased fellowman. 

  He is survived by his wife, one son, Lyman Henry Potter, Jr., his mother, 
Mrs. Rufus Potter, three sisters, Mrs. Clyde Gurley, Mrs. Courtney Griffin, 
all of Suffolk, and Mrs. Harry Clarke, of Alger, Ohio, and one brother, Geddes 
Potter, of Edenton, N.C. 

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Large Attendance At Potter Funeral Rites 

  Funeral services for Lyman Henry Potter, clerk to the city manager of 
Suffolk, who died recently in a Norfolk hospital, were held yesterday 
afternoon at the residence on South Broad street by Dr. W.W. Staley, 
assisted by the Rev. H.S. Hardcastle. 

  Members of Post 57, American Legion, members of Smith's Volunteers of the 
World War, the city manager, members of the council, and city officials 
attended in a body.  A quartet choir composed of Mrs. Claudia Jacobs, Mrs. 
Ray Saunders, W.W. Ballard and James Harrell, sang "I Love to Tell the Story" 
and "Sometime We'll Understand." 

  Active pallbearers were Claude E. Eley, R.H. Brinkley, Herman Jones, William 
Jones, E.E. Jones, Elmer Brinkley, Thomas Lilliston and W. Taylor Johnson. 
Burial was in Cedar Hill cemetery.  "Taps" was blown at the close of the 
ceremonies.  Members of the legion and of Smith's World War Volunteers 
attended as honorary pallbearers. 

  Among the out-of-town relatives who came for the services were Mr. and Mrs. 
Harry Clarke, of Ohio; Mr. and Mrs. Geddes Potter, of Edenton, N.C.; Mr. and 
Mrs. C.C. Griffin, of Norfolk; Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Haynes and W.B. Haynes, Jr., 
of Fitzgerald, Ga., and Mrs. W.B. Haynes and Mrs. E.F. Haynes, of Lakeland, 
Fla. 


Lyman Henry POTTER, City of Suffolk bookkeeper, 
b. 27 Feb 1890*, Suffolk, d. 9 Nov 1929, Norfolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block D, Lot 51*), Suffolk, 11 Nov 1929, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 7, No. 214, Sat., Nov. 9, 1929, p. 1; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 7, No. 216, Tues., Nov. 12, 1929, p. 8 

*Additional information: 

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

A photo of his gravestone - added by SWF - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #86573573. 

The 1900 Census - 81 Kilby St., Suffolk - gives Henry L., b. Feb 1889. 

D.Cert. 27235 (Norfolk #1766) gives b. 27 Feb 1891. 


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