Nansemond County-Suffolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pond, James R. Sr., 1997 

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JAMES RANDOLPH POND, SR. 

05-01-1927 - 01-11-1997 

  SUFFOLK - James Randolph Pond, Sr., 69, of 1333 River Road died Jan. 11, 
1997. 

  A native of Suffolk, he was the son of the late Charles B. and Clara Outland 
Pond.  Mr. Pond was the president of Producer Peanut Co. Inc.  He was a member 
of West End Baptist Church, the Peanut and Treenut Processor Association, the 
Great Bridge Power Squadron and the Nansemond Power Squadron. 

  Survivors include his daughter, Catherine P. Lawson and husband George of 
Midlothian, Va.; son, James R. Pond, Jr. and his wife, Kathy, of Chesapeake; 
brother, Richard L. Pond Sr. of Suffolk; three grandchildren, George H. 
Lawson, III, Edwin K. Lawson and Jennie K. Pond; and devoted friend, Mary 
Ellen Gomer. 

  A funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday in West End Baptist Church by 
the Rev. T. Floyd Irby and Dr. Donald J. Dunlap.  Interment will be private. 
The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday in the R.W. Baker 
& Co. Funeral Home and at other times at the residence.  Memorial donations 
may be made to the American Cancer Society, 902 Pennsylvania Ave. Suffolk, VA. 
23434.

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James R. Pond Sr. 

  James Randolph Pond Sr., 69, of 1333 River Rd., Suffolk, Va., died Jan. 11, 
1997.  A native of Suffolk, he was the son of the late Charles B. and Clara 
Outland Pond. 

  Mr. Pond was president of Producer Peanut Co., Inc.  He was a member of West 
End Baptist Church, the Peanut and Treenut Processor Association, the Great 
Bridge Power Squadron, and the Nansemond Power Squadron. 

  Survivors include his daughter, Catherine P. Lawson and husband, George, of 
Midlothian; a son, James R. Pond Jr. and his wife, Kathy, of Chesapeake; a 
brother. Richard L. Pond Sr. of Suffolk; three grandchildren. George H. Lawson 
III, Edwin K. Lawson, Jennie K. Pond; and devoted friend, Mary Ellen Gomer. 

  Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday at 2 p.m. in West End Baptist 
Church by Rev. T. Floyd Irby and Dr. Donald J. Dunlap.  Interment will be 
private. 

  The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday in the R.W. Baker 
and Co. Funeral Home, and at other times at the residence.  Memorial donations 
may be made to the American Cancer Society, 902 Pennsylvania Ave., Suffolk, 
Va. 23434. 


James Randolph POND, Sr., president of Producer Peanut, 
b. 1 May 1927, Suffolk, d. 11 Jan 1997, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block H, Lot 140*), Suffolk, 12 Jan 1997, 
donated obit, publication unknown; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 73, No. 10, Tues., Jan. 12, 1997, p. 2 

*Additional information: 

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_p.txt 

Photos of her gravestone - added by Hixburg23958 & Steve Poole - 
   are posted with Find a Grave Memorial #134360485. 

D.Cert. 97-001306 

He 1m. Jane Ellen HUMPHREY (1929 - 2013) 14 Aug 1948 in Huntingdon, 
   Cabell Co., WV; they div. in 1972, and she 2m. a BEALE.  She is 
   buried in Spring Hill Cemetery,  Huntingdon, WV. 

He 2m. Lois (THIGPEN) BUTTS 21 Apr. 1973 (Suffolk #19). 


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