Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Govett, Leonard Evelyn Richard, II March 29, 1942
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Virginian-Pilot April 4, 1942
Child and Mother, Once of Norfolk, Missing at Sea

Annapolis, Md., April 3 -(AP)- Memorial services for Mrs. Elizabeth W. Govett, 
the former Mrs. Samuel H. duPont, of Wilmington, Del., and her two-year-old son, 
Leonard, presumed lost at sea in the recent torpedoing of an American ship in 
the Atlantic, will be held at 11:30 a.m. tomorrow at the Naval Academy chapel.
Mrs. Govett (formerly of Norfolk), who had been with her husband, Lieut. Leonard 
Govett, Royal Navy volunteer reserve, was en route here to visit her mother, 
Mrs. Harry Lee Wrenn, of Norfolk, Va.; her sister, Mrs. Robert Jasperson, wife 
of Commander Jasperson, U.S.N., and her 14-year-old daughter, Eve duPont.
Leonard Govett was baptized in the Academy chapel. Capt. William N. Thomas, 
Academy chaplain, will conduct tomorrow's services.

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