Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Humphries, Thomas Frost  February 19, 1947
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Norfolk Virginian Pilot February 20, 1947
T.F. Humphries, 80, Proofreader for Pilot, Dies

Thomas Frost Humphries, 80, for more than a score of years employed by the 
Norfolk Virginian Pilot as a proofreader until his retirement several years 
ago, died yesterday at 4 a.m. at a local hospital after an illness of one day. 
Death was attributed to a heart attack.
A native of Shawboro, N.C., he had lived in Norfolk practically all his life. 
He resided at 116 West Eleventh Street.
When only 13, he started to learn the printer’s trade on the old Public Ledger, 
and during his early career published and edited the Berkley News, that 
suburb’s only daily newspaper. His newspaper activities also included work on 
the old Norfolk Post. He held membership in the Norfolk-Portsmouth 
Typographical Union No. 32.
A son of the late T.C. and Mrs. Mary Frost Humphries, he is survived by one 
sister, Mrs. H.A. Cason, of Port Norfolk; one niece, Mrs. E.P. Ives of Oceana; 
two nephews, the Rev. C.C. Bell, D.D., of Lynchburg, and Joseph H. Bell, of 
Norfolk; two great nieces, Mrs. E. Ruffin Jones, Jr., of Gainesville, Fla. and 
Mrs. Joseph C. MacPhail of Bay City, Mich.; two great nephews, Howard P. Ives, 
of Oceana, and Lieut. C.C. Bell, Jr., Army doctor at Veterans Facility 
Hospital, Kecoughtan.
Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow at 2 p.m. at the Cox Funeral Home, 
631 Westover Avenue, by the Rev. Sparks W. Melton, D.D., pastor of Freemason 
Street Baptist Church, and the Rev. W.L. Murphy, assistant pastor of Epworth 
Methodist Church. Burial will be in the family plot in Magnolia Cemetery.

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HUMPHRIES, THOMAS F I1573 Block C, Lot 6, Space SE 0 02/19/1947


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