Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Fitchett, Bessie Lee March 2, 1950
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Virginian-Pilot March 4, 1950
Miss Bessie Lee Fitchett, 86, owner and principal of Hampton College, a 
secondary school for girls, died Thursday afternoon at her home in College 
Place, Hampton.
Educated in Norfolk at the Leache-Wood College, she later organized a private 
school for boys in Norfolk. She left here in 1892 and acquired the girls' school 
in Hampton.
A native of Shirley, the Fitchett family estate in Northampton County on the 
Eastern Shore, her late parents were John R. and Mrs. Frances Simkins Fitchett. 
She was a granddaughter of Dr. Jesse Jarvis Simkins, surgeon of the Confederate 
army.
No immediate members of her family survive.
Funeral services will be conducted today at 11 a.m., at her home in Hampton by 
the Rev. Raleigh M. Engle, pastor of the Hampton Presbyterian Church, and Dr. 
Paul K. Buckles, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, Newport News.
Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery, Norfolk. 

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