Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Berkley, Waverley Lee Jr August 10, 1958
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The Virginian Pilot Monday August 11, 1958
Waverley Lee Berkley, 63, Insurance Executive Dies

Norfolk-Waverley Lee Berkley, 63, president of the Security Insurance Agency 
and vice president of Home Federal Savings and Loan Association, died Sunday 
morning at a Norfolk hospital after a long illness.
He was a native of Norfolk and the grandson of Lycurgus Berkley, founder of 
the town of Berkley, now a part of Norfolk.
His father was the late Waverly Lee Berkley, for many years president of the 
Berkley Permanent Building and Loan Association, now Home Federal, and vice 
president of the Merchants and Planters Bank, now part of Bank of Commerce. 
His mother was Mrs. Judith Elizabeth Ferebee Berkley.
He attended Norfolk private and public schools and was a veteran of World 
War I, having served in the Naval Reserves in 1917-1918.
After being affiliated for years with Merchants and Planters Bank, he formed 
a partnership with the late John W. Nash in the insurance firm of Nash and 
Berkley. Later he and the late Samuel Lyons Jr. formed the Security 
Insurance Agency, of which he was first secretary-treasurer and later 
president.
He was a director of the Home Federal for about 35 years and vice president 
for 20 years.
He was a former vestryman and church treasurer of St. Brides Episcopal 
Church. For the past 15 years he was a member of the Church of the Good 
Shepherd.
He was a member of the Norfolk Yacht and Country Club and of the Farmington 
Country Club.
He was also a member of the Doric Lodge of Masons and of the Fraternal Order 
of Eagles.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Clara Evelyn McCoy Berkley; one daughter, 
Mrs. Robert D. Harrison of Philadelphia; two sons, Lt. Waverley Lee Berkley 
III. USMC, stationed at Camp Lejeune, N.C., and John McCoy Berkley of 
Norfolk; two sisters, Mrs. Richard C. Owens and Mrs. David Armistead 
Dashiell and one brother Fairfax M. Berkley, all of Norfolk; and two 
grandchildren.
The body was taken to the H.D. Oliver Funeral Apartments. Funeral services 
will be conducted Tuesday at 11 a.m. by the Rev. Norman Slater, rector, 
Church of the Good Shepherd. Burial will be in Magnolia Cemetery in Berkley. 

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