Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Dowd, Mary Virginia Sturgis August 18, 1941 ************************************************ 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 October 23, 2015, 7:51 pm The Norfolk Virginian Pilot August 19, 1941 Mrs. Virginia Sturgis Dowd, aged 65, died at a local hospital yesterday morning at 10:10 o'clock after an illness of nine weeks. She had been in failing health for a year. She resided at 1217 Omohundro avenue. Mrs. Dowd was the wife of Lawrence H. Dowd and daughter of Mrs. Margie Savage Sturgis Cooper, of Olney, and the late John Sturgis. She was a native of Accomack County, Eastern Shore, and had resided in Norfolk for 45 years. Mrs. Dowd was a member of Ghent Methodist Church. Surviving her, in addition to her husband and mother, are a son Vernon L. Duncan, of Richmond; two brothers, J.H. Sturgis of Norfolk and Otho Sturgis, of Olney, and a sister, of Philadelphia, Pa. Funeral services will be conducted at the Cox Funeral Home, 631 Westover avenue, tomorrow afternoon at 1 o'clock, The Rev. W.P. Watkins, pastor of Ghent Methodist Church, will officiate. Interment will be in Elmwood Cemetery. Additional Comments: Elmwood DOWD, MARY S I799 Section ELM EXT, Block 28, Lot 14, Space 2N 0 08/18/1941 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/d/dowd9862gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 1.6 Kb