Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Donovan, David F.  February 6, 1907
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Virginian Pilot February 7, 1907

                         DAVID F. DONOVAN DIED YESTERDAY

      Prominent Norfolk Business Man Stood High In Community--Funeral Friday

David F. Donovan died at his home, No. 223 Holt Street, at 10 o'clock a.m. 
yesterday after an illness of pneumonia of about ten days in the 55th year of 
his age. Mr. Donovan was born in Ireland but came to this country in early life 
and he had resided in Norfolk for forty years.
He was exceedingly popular with all classes of citizens and had been prominent 
as a business man for many years. He was connected with the firm of Donovan & 
Company, coal dealers, and was a director in many of the financial and other 
business enterprises of Norfolk, among these the National Bank of Commerce, The 
Merchants and Mechanics' Bank, The Seaboard Fire Insurance Company and the 
Elizabeth Land Company. He stood high in the estimation of the community as a 
citizen of unswerving integrity and honor.
Mr. Donovan was never married but is survived by two brothers, Thomas Donovan of 
Norfolk and James Donovan of St. Louis. A few years ago he lost by death two 
brothers, William and John Donovan.
The deceased was a communicant of St. Mary's Catholic Church, from which the 
funeral will be solemnized Friday morning at 10 o'clock.
President Wm. T. Anderson, of the Board of Trade and Business Men's Association, 
has appointed the following committee to attend the funeral of Mr. David F. 
Donovan, which will be held from St. Mary's Catholic Church, Chapel and Holt 
Streets, Friday morning, February 8, at 10 o'clock. William H. Wales Jr., Jas. 
W. McCarrick, W.C. Cobb, Jos. O. Fivecash, R.D. Parrott, W.J. Woodard, J.W. 
Brown, Kensey Johns, Geo. H. Dawes, William H. Collins, Nathaniel Beaman, Peter 
Smith, Jas. V. Trehy, J.M. Umstadter, Hugh N. Page, Jno. F. Lawler, W.S. Tooker, 
A.J. Goodrich, T.B. Kight, F.F. Nash, Geo. W. Taylor, C.L. Wright.
Other members of the association are requested to join the committee.
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The funeral of the late David F. Donovan was solemnized from St. Mary's Catholic 
church at 10 o’clock yesterday morning and was largely attended by friends and 
delegations from the Board of Trade and Business Men's Association, the banks 
and other business institutions.
Requiem mass was celebrated by Rev. Father Doherty. Rev. Father Walsh and Rev. 
Father Kelliher occupied seats in the sanctuary.
At the conclusion of the mass, Father Doherty, who had known and was intimately 
associated with the deceased for many years, delivered a beautiful eulogy on his 
life and character.
During the service, Mrs. James Hughes rendered as a solo, “Abide With Me." There 
was a profusion of lovely floral tributes, among which were the following. An 
immense bunch of roses from the officers and directors of the National Bank of 
Commerce; a standing wreath from the officers and directors of the Merchants and 
Mechanics’ bank; a pillow from the Seaboard Fire and Insurance Company, and a 
lyre from the Atlantic Creosoting Works. The remains were laid to rest in St. 
Mary's Cemetery and the pallbearers were as follows: Honorary—N. Beaman, Robert 
Johnson, W. H. Wales, James W. McCarrick, William Hart, B. W Leigh, W. C. Cobb 
and Major Tazewell Thompson.
Active—John R. Coleman, John F. Lawler, W. M. Hannon, Patrick Hart, M. McKevitt, 
W. J. Dilworth, Patrick Magee and James O’Rourke.

Virginian-Pilot  February 9, 1907


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