Nansemond County-Suffolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Riddick, Archibald A., 1930 

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Archibald Allen Riddick, 82, Is Dead After A Long Illness 

One of Suffolk's Oldest and Most Prominent Pioneer Citizens, 
   Having Served As Commissioner of Revenue for 26 Years. 

  Archibald Allen Riddick, 82, one of Suffolk's oldest and most esteemed 
citizens, died at his home on Saratoga street, yesterday afternoon at 5:30, 
after a long illness. 

  Mr. Riddick was one of the pioneer residents of Suffolk.  He was the son of 
the late Benjamin Riddick and Mrs. Eliza Porter Riddick.  He was commissioner 
of revenue for Suffolk for 26 years, and for about 75 years an active member 
of the Methodist Church and for nearly half a century a member of the official 
board and was prominent in all the activities of his church.  Mr. Riddick was 
an old member of Suffolk Lodge No. 30, A.F. and A.M., and for a great many 
years was secretary. 

  Mr. Riddick is survived by one daughter, Miss Ellen Riddick, and a sister, 
Miss Lou Riddick.  His wife, Mrs. Maud Pinner Riddick, died in 1927.  He was 
an uncle of Luther Britt, of Norfolk; Ben R. Britt, of Clarksburg, W. Va.; 
Lee Britt and Henry S. Eley, Misses Lizzie, Dora and Louise Britt, Mrs. H.W. 
Campbell and Mrs. A.R. Myrick, all of Suffolk. 

  Funeral services will be held Friday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at the Main 
Street Methodist Church and will be conducted by Rev. H.E. Cromer, the pastor. 
Pallbearers are Lee Britt, L.R. Britt, Henry S. Eley, Theodore Myrick, Wood 
Campbell, Julian S. Lawrence, Thomas S. Lawrence, F.A. Holladay and Archibald 
Morgan.  The official board of the Methodist Church and friends of the family 
will serve as honorary pallbearers.  Masonic burial rites will be held at 
Cedar Hill cemetery, where the remains will be interred. 

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Archibald A. Riddick, Aged Citizen, Buried Yesterday 

Funeral Service For Widely Known Former Public Official Takes Place 
   From Church of Which He Had Been a Member Since Childhood. 

  Funeral services for the late Archibald Allen Riddick, prominent Suffolk 
citizen, were held yesterday afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at Main Street 
Methodist Church, of which he had been an active member since youth and a 
member of the board of stewards for about 60 years.  The services were 
conducted by the Rev. H.E. Cromer. 

  The church choir sang, "How Firm A Foundation," and "Christian's Good 
Night," and a male quartette composed of A.B. Cramer, R.N. Baker, Walter 
McFall and Paul Van Valkenberg, sang, "Going Down the Valley." 

  The casket was covered with a beautiful pall of calla lilies, with 
snapdragons, ferns and lilies of the valley, and there was a profusion of 
handsome floral offerings.  Burial was in Cedar Hill cemetery, with the 
rites of the Masonic Lodge, of which Mr. Riddick had been a member for many 
years. 

  Active pallbearers were Henry S. Eley, Luther and Lee Britt, W.T. Myrick, 
Dr. Wood Campbell, Thomas and Julian Lawrence, Frank Holladay and Archibald 
Morgan.  The official board of the church and friends of the family acted 
as honorary pallbearers. 


Archibald Allen RIDDICK, former Suffolk Commissioner of Revenue, 
b. 14 Mar 1848, Suffolk, d. 6 May 1930, at home, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block D, Lot 24*), Suffolk, 8 May 1930, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 8, No. 40, Wed., May 7, 1930, p. 1; 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 8, No. 42, Fri., May 9, 1930, p. 1 

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

His parents are buried in the same lot. 

A photo of his gravestone - added by Jake Dog - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #66454312. 

D.Cert. 11873 (Suffolk #153) 


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