Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Grant, Walter Russell July 14, 1951 ************************************************ 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 April 20, 2017, 12:55 pm Norfolk Virginian Pilot Sunday July 15, 1951 Troy, N>C., July 14 -- Walter R. Grant, 68, died at his home in Troy early this morning. He was born in Northampton County, was an alumnus of Duke University, a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity. He married Miss Linnie Hyslop, of Norfolk, Va. and joined the firm of M.T. Blassingham Company, timber dealers, and moved to Montgomery County in 1912, with offices in Star, N.C., later moving to Troy. He served three terms as chairman of the County Board of Education and was mayor of Troy for two terms, an officer in Trinity Methodist Church, a teacher in the men's Bible Class. The funeral will be conducted Sunday from the Trinity Methodist Church, Troy, at 5 o'clock. The burial will be in Magnolia Cemetery, Norfolk, Monday at 2 o'clock. Additional Comments: Magnolia File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/g/grant13039gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 1.4 Kb