Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Black, Munro October 3, 1957
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The Virginian Pilot Saturday October 5, 1957

MUNRO BLACK DIES, AGED 60; RITES TODAY

Heart Ailment Fatal To Lawyer, Veteran Of World War I

Munro Black, 60, attorney, died suddenly at the residence, 1329 Westover Ave., 
Thursday at 9 p.m.
He had been suffering from a heart condition for the past few years, but still 
continued to practice.  He was at his law office on Thursday.
He was the son of the late Foster and Mrs. Jennie Tilley Black, and was born in 
the family home on Chesapeake Avenue in what is now South Norfolk.  His father 
was a Norfolk County industrialist and owned and operated several cotton mills 
in this vicinity.  
He attended the old Charlotte Street grammar school, now the offices of the 
Norfolk City School Board and graduated from the Episcopal High School in 
Alexandria.

                          University Graduate
He was also a graduate of the University of Virginia where he received his B.S. 
degree in 1925.  He subsequently studied law at the University of Virginia and 
Columbia University.  He was a member of Phi Gamma Delta at the university.
He was also a member of the Norfolk and Portsmouth Bar Assn.
He was a veteran of World War I, in which he served with the 111th Field 
Artillery.  He was an active member of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church.
He never married.  He is survived by one brother, Barron F. Black, three nieces, 
Mrs. C. Randolph Hudgins, Jr., Mrs. Walter B. Martin Jr. and Mrs. David Clark IV 
and seven grand nieces and nephews.
The body was removed to the H.D. Oliver Funeral Apartments, where funeral 
services will be conducted today at 3:30 p.m. by the Rev. Beverly Tucker White, 
rector of St. Andrews' Episcopal  Church.  Burial will be in Magnolia Cemetery, 
Berkley.

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