Newport News City-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Duke, Susie M. Hueter, 1939 

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RICHARD THOMAS DUKE 

RICHARD DUKE DIES AT AGE 72 

  Richard Thomas Duke, Sr., 72, of 51 Shirley Road, Newport News, died at 
1:45 A.M. today at Riverside Hospital after a short illness.

  A native of Nansemond County, he had been a resident for the past 50 years. 
He was a member of First Congregational Christian Church, the Progressive 
Bible Class and the Retired Men’s Club.

  He was retired in 1952 as an employee of the Newport News Shipbuilding and 
Dry Dock Co. after 37 years of service.

  Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Hortense Stanley Duke of Newport News; two 
sons, Richard Thomas Duke Jr., and C.F. Duke of Detroit, Mich.; three sisters, 
Mrs. E.C. Luke of Suffolk, Mrs. William Parker and Mrs. Sadie Putnam, both of 
Portsmouth; one half-brother, Edwin Duke of Portsmouth, and four grandchildren.

  Funeral arrangedments are incomplete. 

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R.T. DUKE, Sr., 72, DIES 

  Richard Thomas Duke Sr., 72, retired in 1952 from Newport News Shipbuilding 
and Dry Dock Co. after 37 years' service, died Monday in Riverside Hospital 
after a short illness.

  Born in Nansemond County, he had lived in Newport News 50 years.  He was a 
member of First Congregational Christian Church where funeral services will be 
conducted at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday by the Rev. Jesse H. Dollar, D.D., pastor.

  Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Hortense Stanley Duke; two sons, R.T. Duke Jr. 
of Newport News, and Charles Fred Duke of Detroit; three sisters, Mrs. E.C. 
Luke of Suffolk, and Mrs. William Parker and Mrs. Sadie Putnam of Portsmouth; 
half brother, Edwin Duke, of Portsmouth, and four grandchildren, Richard T. 
Duke and Myra Lynn Duke and Paul H. Duke of Newport News, and Vicy Ann Duke, 
Detroit.

  Burial will be in Greenlawn Cemetery.  The body will be at Peninsula Funeral 
Home until noon Wednesday when it will be placed in the church.

  Pallbearers will be John W. Holland, Raymond Holland, John Nicholass Jr., 
Lake Holtzclaw, G.G. Givens, Russell Turner, George N. Gandy and M.E. Benton.


Richard Thomas "Ragland" DUKE, Sr., retired from Newport News shipyard, 
b. 20 Sep 1886, Nansemond Co., d. 2 Feb 1959, Newport News, 
interred in Greenlawn Cemetery*, Newport News, 4 Feb 1959, 
donated obit, publication unknown; 
"Daily Press" (Newport News, VA), Tuesday, Feb. 3, 1959, p. 8 

*Additional information: 

Birthdate, nickname &c. from Find a Grave Mem. #84820956 

The (donated, 1939) obit of his first wife, Susie Maria (HEUTER) DUKE, 
   is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/newportnews/obits/d200s6ob.txt 

The (donated, 1948) obit of his second wife, Rose Virginia (HOWELL 
   CLATTERBAUGH) DUKE, is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/newportnews/obits/d200r6ob.txt 

Both are also buried in Greenlawn. 

His widow is buried with her parents in a PRILLAMAN family cemetery, 
   Bassett's Fork, Henry Co.  (Find a Grave Mem. #33543846) 


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