Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Davis, Bernard Vincent May 26, 1954
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Norfolk Journal and Guide,June 5,1954
Funeral service was held Sunday at 1 p.m. at First Baptist Church, Bute 
street, for Bernard Vincent Davis who drowned Wednesday evening, May 26, in 
a ditch in Roberts Park. The Rev. Herbert C. Hill, acting pastor, 
officiated. One report was that Bernard and several boys were playing near 
the ditch, and he fell into about six feet of water.

Bernard, who would have been ten years old on July 15, was in the 4-H grade 
at the Bowling Park School. Mrs. Dorothy Davis, Bernard's mother, who stuck 
a nail in her left foot Wednesday, was at Norfolk General Hospital when the 
tragedy occurred.

Survivors, in addition to the mother, are Bernard's father, Bernard Louis 
Davis; three brothers, Stanton, 8; Frank Gleen, 6, and Lamont,5; one sister, 
Patricia Ann, 18 months; both grandmothers, Mrs. Ida Ruffin and Mrs. Gustine 
Fleming, Norfolk; one great grandfather, both great-grandmothers, four 
uncles, two aunts, several cousins and other relatives.

Burial was in Calvary Cemetery with Hale's Funeral Home in charge.

Additional Comments:
Calvary Cemetery

not on cemetery listing (Unrecorded interment)

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