Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Dennis, Mallie D September 7, 1900
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Virginian-Pilot, September 09, 1900

The announcement yesterday of the death of Mr. Mallie D. Dennis at the home of 
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel S. Dennis, corner of Camp Avenue and Fort 
Street, Atlantic City Ward, at 5 o’clock p.m. Friday, though not entirely 
unexpected, has created a painful void in this community, where he was so well 
known and universally beloved. Months ago Mr. Dennis was stricken down with 
that fell destroyer, consumption, and during all his long and painful illness 
not a murmur was ever heard to escape his lips. He was a young man of fine 
attainments and splendid qualities of head and heart. He was passionately fond 
of the beautiful in art, and for several years prior to his death he had 
studiously applied himself to that profession, but in the midst of bright hopes 
and a promising career of usefulness he has been called to try the realities of 
the unseen world. He was the joy of his parents’ household and the idol both of 
his father and mother, and his untimely demise is a crushing blow to them. The 
deceased was in the 26th year of his age, and was a consistent member of Lekies 
Memorial M.D. Church, from which the funeral will be held at 3 o’clock this 
afternoon.
Mr. Dennis had a very bright career before him, as his work has appeared in 
Truth, The Harper publications and other journals, an order from which 
recognition of his artistic shill. Mr. Dennis painted a number of beautiful 
little gems of North Carolina and Virginia scenery, but the most notable 
production was a large oil painting of the Reina Mercedes and accompanying 
fleet of welcoming craft at the Norfolk Navy Shipyard.
Virginian-Pilot, September 11, 1900

The evidence of the high esteem in which the late Mr. Mallie D. Dennis was held 
and was attested by the immense number people, friends of the deceased, who 
attended his funeral, which was solemnized from LeKies Memorial Methodist 
Church, Atlantic City Ward, Sunday afternoon, the auditorium and lecture room 
being filled beyond their seating capacity, which numbers lingered on the 
outside during the entire service.
The obsequies were conducted by the pastor, Rev. Graham H. Lambeth, assisted by 
Rev. E.E. Dudley, of Central Avenue Baptist Church, and Rev. C.W. Maxwell, of 
Colley Memorial Presbyterian Church. Mr. Lambeth, in tender and loving words of 
the deceased, said the he was truly a model young man and that in his death the 
community lost on of its brightest and noblest young men, and that he would 
rather be Mallie Dennis “asleep in Jesus” then to be alive and without God and 
without hope in the world. In conclusion, he urged all of his young friends, 
and there were many of them present, to emulate his Godly example by taking 
Christ as their pattern of life and leave the world as he had in full assurance 
of a blessed immortality.
During the services, Mrs. Dr. I.N. Farmer sang as a sol, very sweetly and 
tenderly, “Let Not Your Hearts Be Troubled, Ye Believe in God, Believe Also in 
Me.” There was a profusion of the most beautiful floral tributes sent by loving 
friends. The remains, followed by a lengthy cortege, were conveyed to Elmwood 
Cemetery, where they were laid to rest to await the resurrection of the just. 
Following were the pall-bearers: C.A. Morrisett, S.H. Forrest, L.E. Hitchings, 
W.H. Face, W.H. Hitchings, H.B. Sibley, J.A. Clear and C.H. Spicer.


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