Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Woolford, Arthur, 1933 

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ARTHUR WOOLFORD

ARTHUR WOOLFORD FUNERAL SERVICES TUESDAY AFTERNOON

ALL OF CHILDREN TO BE PRESENT, SON FLYING HOME FROM NEW MEXICO

   Suffolk, Dec. 31 - Funeral services for Arthur Woolford, prominent Suffolk 
banker and citizen, who died suddenly at his desk in the National Bank of 
Suffolk Saturday morning in his sixty-fourth year, will be conducted at St. 
Paul’s Episcopal Church Tuesday afternoon, January 2, at 3 o’clock by the 
rector, the Rev. Herbert N. Tucker.

   Burial in charge of Suffolk Lodge No. 30, A.F. & A.M. will be in Cedar Hill 
Cemetery.

   All of Mr. Woolford’s children will attend the funeral.  Arthur Woolford 
came immediately after his father’s death from Magnolia.  Mr. and Mrs. 
Micheaux Raine arrived Saturday afternoon from Richmond; Miss Nancy Polk 
Woolford from New York City, and John R. Woolford from Montclair, N.J., 
arrived this morning, and Austin Withers Woolford, flying from Santa Fe, New 
Mexico, is due Monday.

   Active pallbearers will be W.H. Darden, Sr., and J. Thornton Withers, 
brothers-in-law of the deceased; A. Taylor Darden, Sam Woolford, of Suffolk, 
and Aubrey Woolford, of Norfolk; Melville Withers, W.H. Darden, Jr., and 
William Jones Withers, his nephews.

   Honorary pallbearers will be officers and directors of the National Bank of 
Suffolk; Judge James L. McLemore, I.O. Hill, H.T. Jackson, John Vincent, Jack 
W. Nurney, William Birdsong, J.M. Darden, Vernon G. Eberwine, Bernard W. 
Godwin, W.T. Pond, R.A. Pretlow; and the members of the vestry of St. Paul’s 
Episcopal Church: W.E. Hines, Walter B. Ferguson, H.M. Pinner, Charles L. 
Hutchins, Frances S. Chase, Lewis T. Cohoon, G.B. Dixon, E.R. Custis, S.M. 
Lawrence, Dr. J.P. Whedbee, J. Walter Hosier, M.K. Kendrick and P.H. Eley.

   Representatives of the Masonic Lodges of Suffolk, and of Mount Nebo Royal 
Arch Chapter also will act as honorary escorts.


Arthur WOOLFORD, banker, 
MD native, d. 30 Dec 1933, at work, Suffolk, age 64, 
interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery (Block N, Lot 1*), Suffolk, 2 Jan 1934, 
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_v.txt 


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