Nansemond County-Suffolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Woodward, Hersey Jr., 1966 

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HERSEY WOODWARD, JR.

H. WOODWARD JR., EX-POSTMASTER, INSURANCE MAN

SUFFOLK - Hersey Woodward, postmaster and a retired insurance man, died Sunday 
at 7 a.m. in Obici Memorial Hospital.

Woodward was postmaster of Suffolk during the Hoover administration and was 
succeeded by Sam Stallings when Roosevelt was elected president.

He was retired from Woodward and Elam Insurance Agency.

A native of Suffolk, he was the husband of Mrs. Claudia Long Woodward and a 
son of Hersey Woodward Sr. and Mrs. Augusta Saunders Woodward.

He was a member of Suffolk Christian Church and formerly taught its Baraca 
Bible Class, a past master of Suffolk Masonic Lodge 30 and its secretary more 
than 30 years.

Besides his widow, surviving are a daughter, Mrs. Sarah W. Tuohy of Norfolk; 
a son, Jacob L. Woodward, and a sister, Miss Marie Woodward, both of Suffolk; 
and three brothers, Richard L. Woodward Jr. and Thomas L. Woodward of Suffolk 
and James S. Woodward of Hampton.

A funeral service will be conducted Tuesday at 2:30 p.m. in Suffolk Christian 
Church by the Rev. Robert B. Marr.  Burial with Masonic rites will be in Cedar 
Hill Cemetery.

The body will be taken from R.W. Baker & Co. Funeral Home to the church at 
1:30 p.m. Tuesday.


Hersey WOODWARD, Jr., former postmaster of Suffolk & retired insurance man, 
Suffolk native , d. 16 Oct 1966, Suffolk, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block C, Lot 8*), Suffolk, 18 Oct 1966, 
"The Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Oct. 16, 1966 

*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_v.txt 

His father's obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," Nov. 11, 1932) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/w363h1ob.txt 

His mother's obit ("Suffolk News-Herald," Sep. 11, 1941) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/nansemond/obits/w363a1ob.txt 


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