Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Heard, Charles Franklin October 30, 1957
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Virginian-Pilot October 31, 1957
FRONT ROYAL, Oct. 30 — Charles Franklin Heard, Virginia newspaperman for 59 
years, died today at 5 p.m. in Warren County Memorial Hospital here. He was 81.
Mr. Heard began his newspaper work with the Norfolk Public Ledger in 1893 and 
remained with that newspaper for 25 years until after its merger into the 
Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch. He then joined the new Scripts-Howard newspaper, the 
Norfolk Post, and worked for that publication until it ceased operations.
He then was employed by the Danville Bee and Register for six and a half years, 
heading the South Boston branch office where he was in charge of news, 
advertisements and circulation.
He moved to Front Royal in 1933 after working for three and a half years for the 
Charlottesville Daily Progress and joined the staff of the Strasburg Northern 
Virginia Daily just 13 months after that newspaper was founded.
Heard worked as subscription solicitor for the Northern Virginia Daily in Front 
Royal and Warren County from Nov. 1, 1933, until his death.
During his newspaper career he also served as a local correspondent for the 
Richmond Times-Dispatch, Lynchburg News and The Roanoke Times.
Mr. Heard was born in Norfolk Dec. 10, 1875, and received his education at the 
Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind in Staunton, where he majored in music. 
He served as organist at the Memorial Methodist Church in Norfolk for 23 years 
and was a member of the Front Royal Lions Club and served as pianist there for 
15 years.
Heard and his wife, Mrs. Florence Snyder Heard, celebrated their 50th wedding 
anniversary, Jan. 23.
He was a son of William Jackson Heard Sr. and Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Williams 
Heard.
Surviving are his wife, a number of nieces, nephews and cousins.
A funeral service will be conducted Friday at 4 p.m. at the Scott Funeral Home 
in Front Royal. The body will be brought to the Cox Funeral Home, Norfolk. The 
family will be at the residence of a Norfolk cousin, Mrs. J. 0. Wiggs, 306 Hardy 
Ave., Berkley.
A committal service will be conducted Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at the grave in 
Elmwood Cemetery, Norfolk.

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