Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Childress, Calvin H., Sr. April 1, 1934
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Virginian-Pilot  April 2, 1934
DR. CHILDRESS DIES SUDDENLY ABOARD LINER

Naval Reserve Officer, Medical Corps, Found Dead In Stateroom On Robert E. Lee 
After Ship’s Arrival From New York

FUNERAL SERVICES TOMORROW MORNING

Lieut. Comdr. Calvin H. Childress, medical officer of Fleet Division 5, Naval 
Reserve, stationed at the Norfolk Navy Yard, died suddenly early yesterday morning 
on board the steamship Robert E. Lee, shortly before the arrival of the liner here 
from New York.

Dr. Childress' death was discovered by a friend who went to the ship yesterday 
morning to meet him. Ships officers were notified and physicians summoned. After 
death had been pronounced due to a heart attack, Coroner's Investigator Leon 
Nowitzky permitted the removal of the body to H. D. Oliver’s Funeral Apartments.

Dr. Childress, at the time of his death, was returning home from a brief visit to 
a relative in New York. He chatted with the purser of the steamer until he retired 
Saturday night, and apparently had been reading when fatally stricken as a 
magazine was found in his hand.

Funeral Tomorrow

The body will be removed to the home of the deceased, 623 Maury place, today. 
Funeral services will be held tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock from Sacred Heart 
Catholic Church.

Dr. Childress, who was a native of Richmond, is survived by his wife, Eva 
Ehrmanntraut Childress; two daughters, Carolyn and Peggy Childress; a son, Calvin 
H. Childress, Jr.; his mother, Mrs. Emma M. Childress, of Richmond; one sister, 
Mrs. George W. Gill, Jr., of that city, and a brother, J. C. Childress, also of 
Richmond.

Lieutenant Commander Childress graduated from the Medical College of Virginia in 
the class of 1916 and received a commission as a medical office in the Navy the 
following year when the United States declared war against Germany. He was 
assigned to the St. Helena Training Station, during the mobilization of recruits 
there and later was ordered to the Transport Koeningin de Nederlands, when the 
first American troops were sent to France. He served on that ship until the 
armistice, making many trips overseas during the war. After demobilization, he 
made his home in Norfolk, where he has since practiced. At the time of his death, 
he was a member of the Norfolk Medical Society, the Knights of Columbus, the 
Officers Fleet Reserve, of which he was treasurer; the American Legion, and had 
for many years been medical examiner for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company 
here.

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