Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Gatewood, Ribourne Watkins February 12, 1963
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Virginian-Pilot  February 13, 1963
NORFOLK — Capt. Ribourne Watkins Gatewood, 83, of 627 Ingleside Road, retired 
excursion boat skipper, died Tuesday at 12:20 p.m. in a Norfolk hospital.
Born and reared in Hampton, he was a son of William Travis and Mrs. Virginia 
Saunders Gatewood and the husband of Mrs. Eularia Gooding Gatewood. He lived in 
Norfolk 60 years and was a member of Christ the King Catholic Church and American 
Legion Post 204.
For years his excursion boats, the Mayflower and the Severance, were familiar 
harbor sights. He operated in Norfolk harbor and Hampton Roads and also from 
Norfolk to Jamestown.
As a youth in Hampton, he followed the water and soon had his own coastal freight 
boat which he chartered to the Hogshires’ Norfolk, Baltimore & Carolina Line for 
runs between New Jersey and South Carolina ports.
One of his freight boats, the Lillian Ann, made headlines in the mid-1930s when it 
was marooned by ice in Upper Chesapeake Bay and the crew had to be rescued by the 
Coast Guard. He sold his boats and retired in 1958.
He served in the Navy during World War I.
Besides his widow, surviving is a brother, John Tyler Gatewood of Hampton.
A funeral service will be conducted in H. D. Oliver Funeral Apartments Friday at 
11 a m. Burial will be in St. Mary’s Cemetery.

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