Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Church, Walter Hanbury January 6, 1953
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Norfolk Virginian Pilot Wednesday January 7, 1953
Maj. W.H. Church, Spanish-American War Veteran, Dies

Maj. Walter Hanbury Church, 83, Army veteran of the Spanish-American War and 
assistant building inspector for the City of Norfolk 30 years, died 
yesterday at 12:40 p.m. at the Veterans Administration Hospital, Kecoughtan.
A lifelong resident of Norfolk, he was a son of Edward and Mrs. Frances 
Harding Church.  He resided at 6001 Eastwood Terrace.
As a second lieutenant in Company B, Fourth Regiment of Virginia Volunteers, 
he saw active service in Cuba during the Spanish American War.  He retired 
as a major after 15 years in the Army and then entered the City employ as a 
building inspector.
He was a member of Marshall Tarrall Camp 5, United Spanish-American War 
Veterans.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Nellie Sharpley Church, and three daughters, 
Miss Elizabeth N. Church, of Washington; Mrs. William A. Racette, of Falls 
Church, and Mrs. E. Spencer Addison, of Norfolk.
Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow at noon at the H.D. Oliver 
Funeral Apartments by the Rev. Sparks W. Melton, D.D., pastor emeritus of 
the Freemason Street Baptist Church, assisted by the Rev. Theodore Swann, 
D.D., pastor of Miles Memorial Methodist Church.  Burial will be in Elmwood 
Cemetery.





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