Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Dougherty, William Brewer August 5, 1942
************************************************
Copyright.  All rights reserved.
http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm
http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm
************************************************

File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by:
Dorothy Strawhand https://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00034.html#0008405 March 28, 2015, 4:16 pm

The Norfolk Virginian Pilot August 6, 1942
William Brewer Dougherty, long an outstanding business man and churchman in 
Norfolk, died yesterday at his home, 616 Raleigh avenue, after a short illness.
Born in Washington, D.C., the son of the late William C. and Emma Julia 
Dougherty, he came to Norfolk as a small boy and had made his home here ever 
since.  He was educated at the Gatewood Private School in Berkley.
At the time of his death he was president of the Atlantic Permanent Building 
and Loan Association of Berkley, president of the People's Insurance Agency, 
and secretary-treasurer of the Norfolk-Berkley Bridge Corporation.  At one time 
he was vice president of the Continental Trust Company.
He was a director of the Family Welfare organization for a number of years, and 
a member of the Norfolk School Board from 1908 to 1920, serving as its chairman 
for the last six years of his tenure.  He was actively affiliated with various 
civic clubs and the Association of Commerce, and was active in the Community 
Fund.
He was one of the city's most prominent churchmen, being an active lay leader 
from his church, the Memorial Methodist Church, where he taught a men's Bible 
class for nearly 50 years.  He was also a lay leader representing the city's 
Methodist churches.
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Bessie Dougherty; two sons, Lieut. Col. Hugh 
L. Dougherty, USA, and Charles Gibbs Dougherty; and two daughters, Mrs. Irving 
Wicks, and Mrs. Edward Evett, all of Norfolk.
Mr. Dougherty is also survived by two half-sisters; Mrs. Ernest Cunningham, of 
Kingsport, Tenn., and Mrs. E.V. McGehee, of Norfolk.

******************
William Brewer Dougherty -- Funeral services for Mr. Dougherty outstanding 
churchman, business man of this section for the last fifty years, will be 
conducted in Memorial Methodist Church this afternoon at 4 o'clock.  The Rev. 
C.E. Green, pastor of Memorial church, of which Mr. Dougherty was steward, 
layreader, Bible teacher, and chairman of music committee, will be assisted by 
Dr. W.C. Gum, district superintendent of Methodist churches in the Norfolk 
area, and the Rev. William P. Watkins, pastor of the Ghent Methodist Church, at 
the services.  Churchmen and business men from Norfolk, Portsmouth and 
surrounding communities will be in attendance.  Burial will be in the family 
plot in Magnolia Cemetery.

The Norfolk Virginian Pilot August 7, 1942

Additional Comments:
Magnolia
DOUGHERTY, WILLIAM B I1696 GUS 0 08/05/1942 


File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/d/doughert7778gob.txt

This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/

File size: 3.1 Kb