Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Capps, Overton Bernard Sr. December 4, 1937
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Norfolk Virginian Pilot December 5, 1937

                           CAPPS FUNERAL HERE TOMORROW

      Stoker Company Sales Manager Native of Princess Anne; Ill Six Months

Overton Bernard Capps, 57, eastern sales manager for the Standard Stoker Company 
of New York, with headquarters in Baltimore, died at a local hospital yesterday 
at 6:45 a.m., after an illness of six months. He was a native of Princess Anne 
County.
Mr. Capps had spent the greater part of his life in New York, having left here 
in 1899 to enter the employ of the American Locomotive Company, Richmond, and in 
1910 became one of the pioneers of the Locomotive Stoker with the Locomotive 
Stoker Company, as eastern sales manager. At the time of his death he was 
eastern sales manager of the Standard Stoker Company of New York, with offices 
in Baltimore.
Mr. Capps was the son of the late John Talbot and Nannie Ackiss Capps. In 
addition to his wife, Mrs. Margaret Boyles Capps, he is survived by a son, O.E. 
Capps, Jr., University of Maryland; a daughter, Miss Alice Virginia Capps, of 
Baltimore; three sisters, Mrs. H.R. Weaver and Mrs. W.M. Carswell, of Norfolk 
and Mrs. Loulie C. Jarvis, of Virginia Beach; three brothers, W.T. Capps, of 
Baltimore, Talbot L. Capps, of Montreal, Canada and J.T. Capps, of Norfolk; and 
several nieces and nephews.
The deceased was prominent in railroad and Masonry circles, being a member of 
St. George Lodge No. 6, A.F. and A.M., St. George Chapter, No. 157, Royal Arch 
Masons and St. George Commandry No. 37, Knights Templar, all of Schenectady, 
N.Y. and Cypress Temple, A.A.O.N., Mystic Shrine, of Albany, N.Y. and was a 
member of the New York Railroad Club, New York City, the "45" Club, of 
Baltimore, the Jo-Jo Club, Reading, Pa. and the Rodgers Forge Golf Club, 
Baltimore.
Funeral services will be conducted at the Funeral Home of E. Lee Cox & Bro., 
Westover Avenue at Manteo Street, tomorrow afternoon at 2 o'clock, with the Rev. 
Sparks W. Melton, D.D., pastor of the Freemason Street Baptist Church, 
officiating. Burial will be in the family plot in Elmwood Cemetery. 

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