Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Fentress, Hilda Evangeline Genscha November 16, 1941
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Norfolk Virginian Pilot November 18, 1941

Mrs. Hilda Evangeline Fentress, aged 31, wife of Jesse Edward Fentress and 
daughter of Mrs. Thelma Zofal Genscha and the late Vincent Genscha, died Sunday 
night at 8:40 o'clock at a local hospital. Mrs. Fentress was a native of Texas 
and had been a resident of Norfolk for the past 21 years, residing at 814 Holt 
Street at the time of her death.
Besides her husband and mother, she is survived by two daughters, Hilda and Judy 
Fentress; two sons, Edward and John Fentress; two sisters, Mrs. G.D. Moots and 
Mrs. Katherine Vaughn, all of Norfolk. Mrs. Fentress was a member of St. Mary's 
Catholic Church. The body will be taken from the H.D. Oliver Funeral Apartments, 
1501 Colonial Avenue, to St. Mary's Catholic Church, for services Wednesday 
morning at 10 o'clock. Interment will be in St. Mary's Cemetery. Rosary services 
will be held at the H.D. Oliver Funeral Apartments tonight at 8 o'clock.
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Mrs. Hilda Evangeline Fentress — Funeral services for Mrs. Fentress, who died 
Sunday night at a local hospital, were held yesterday morning at 10 o’clock at 
St. Mary’s Catholic Church, with the Rev. F. V. Bambrick officiating. The Rev. 
P. C. Blackburn and the Rev. P. P. Brennan were present in the sanctuary. At the 
conclusion of the mass, Father Blackburn paid tribute to the Christian life and 
character of Mrs. Fentress. Students of St. Mary’s Academy attended the services 
in a body. There was a large attendance and many floral offerings. The casket 
was covered with a pall of pink and white carnations and fern. Several 
selections were rendered during the service by the choir of St. Mary's Academy, 
with Mrs. Joseph Lex as organist.
Interment was in St. Mary’s Cemetery. The pallbearers were J. T. Volia, Joe 
Portafe, O. D. Moots, G. D. Moots, J. L. Moots and H. Vaughan.

Norfolk Virginian-Pilot  November 20, 1941


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