Nansemond County-Suffolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....West, Joshua C. III, 1950 

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JOSHUA COTTINGHAM WEST, III

JOSHUA WEST, EX-SUFFOLK MAYOR, DIES

FUNERAL SET TODAY AT OXFORD METHODIST

   SUFFOLK, VA. - March 30 - (AP)  Joshua C. West, III, 42, former Suffolk 
Mayor, died Thursday at Portsmouth Naval Hospital.

   West, Mayor here from 1947 until ill health forced his resignation in April, 
1949, had been a patient at the hospital for the past month and had undergone an 
operation for stomach ulcers.

   The body was removed to the R.W. Baker Funeral Home here pending funeral 
rites at 4 p.m. Friday at Oxford Methodist Church with the Rev. C.T. Topping 
officiating. Burial will be in Cedar Hill Cemetery.

   Mr. West was elected to city council in June, 1947, elections on a so-called 
"youth ticket."  An overwhelming choice in the election, he led the voting and 
later was installed as Mayor. Ill health brought his resignation from council.

   A veteran of World War II, he enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1942, served in 
the Pacific and was discharged at war’s end with the rank of major.

   He was a native of Suffolk, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.C. West, Jr.  He attended 
Suffolk High School and Virginia Military Institute, graduating from the latter 
in 1933 with a bachelor of science degree.

   Mr. West had been active in the Suffolk Junior Chamber of Commerce and the 
American Red Cross and was a member of the Suffolk Rotary Club. He also was a 
member of Oxford Methodist Church and for many years was a teacher in the men’s 
Bible class.

   He is survived by his wife, three children, his parents, and three sisters.


Joshua Cottingham WEST, III, former Mayor of Suffolk, 
Marine Corps veteran of WW-II, 
Suffolk native, d. 30 Mar 1950, Portsmouth, age 42, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block I, Lot 55*), Suffolk, 31 Mar 1950, 
"The Richmond (VA) Times Dispatch," Mar. 31, 1950 

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

His father's obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," Jan. 3, 1951) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/w230j2ob.txt 

His mother's (1956 "Suffolk News-Herald") obit is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/w230k1ob.txt 


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