Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Riddick, Dr. Claudius J., 1946 

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DR. CLAUDIUS JAMES RIDDICK

DR. C.J. RIDDICK, PHYSICIAN, DIES

   SUFFOLK, Oct. 19 - (AP) - Funeral services for Dr. Claudius James 
Riddick, 87, physician of Suffolk and Nansemond County for more than a 
half-century, who died Friday at his home here, will be conducted Sunday 
afternoon at 4:30 o'clock at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, with the Rev. 
Louis A. Haskell officiating.  Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery. 

   Dr. Riddick was a son of the late James Edward and Harriet D. Riddick of 
Nansemond County.  He studied medicine at the University of Virginia as a 
member of the class of 1889 and was graduated from Bellevue Hospital Medical 
School in the class of 1890.  In 1883, he married Miss Emily Swerson 
Wingfield, of Portsmouth, who died 11 years ago.

   He was a member of St. Paul's Episcopal Church of Hiram Lodge No. 340, 
A.F. & A.M. , Mount  Horeb Royal Arch Chapter No. 11 of Portsmouth.  He was 
formerly physician for Nansemond County and surgeon for the Virginian 
Railway, serving both until his retirement due to failing health.

   He was a member of the Seaboard Medical Society of Virginia and North 
Carolina, of the Medical Association of Virginia and of the Suffolk Deer 
Club.

   Surviving are a daughter, Miss Sue Wingfield Riddick, and a son, Claudius 
J. Riddick, Jr., both of Suffolk. 


Dr. Claudius James RIDDICK, retired physician, 
d. 18 Oct 1946, at home, Suffolk, age 87, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block H, Lot 122*), Suffolk, 20 Oct 1946, 
donated obit, publication unknown 

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


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