Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Jenkins, John Summerfield, Jr. July 26, 1969
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Virginian-Pilot July 28, 1969
JENKINS, JOHN S., JR. - In a local hospital, Saturday, JOHN S. JENKINS, JR., 
husband of Mrs. Marjorie Aull Jenkins and son of the late John S., and Mrs. Mary 
Judkins Jenkins, in the 74th year of his age. Remains will be taken from H. D. 
OLIVER FUNERAL APARTMENTS, Norfolk, to Ghent Methodist Church for services today 
at 12 NOON. Friends are invited. Interment will be private. The body will be 
taken to the church at 11:00 a.m.
                          SUMMERFIELD JENKINS
Few men ever presided over a wider range of this community’s affairs, and with 
less ado, than John Summerfield Jenkins, whose death at age 73 occurred 
Saturday. Hospitals — first Norfolk General, then, for 15 years, Community — 
were his civic specialty; in helping to direct them, he extended an interest of 
his father, for whom Jenkins Hall at General Hospital was named. He headed a 
United War Drive and a United Communities Fund campaign. At various times he was 
a member of the School Board, the Port Authority, the Museum Board, and the 
Recreation Commission, and helped found the Norfolk Foundation. While active in 
his family's cotton and jute businesses, he served as a director of such 
important firms as the National Bank of Commerce (now Virginia National Bank), 
Virginia Electric and Power Company, and Planters Manufacturing Company. 
Business associates found him to be incisive and direct. He was an artillery 
captain in the First World War and looked forever like a soldier. But if his 
bearing was formal and his presence austere, his warmth was all the more 
treasured by his friends. He was as comfortable in club rooms as in board rooms. 
Woodberry Forest School and the University of Virginia were in his background.
Norfolk in 1960 honored Summerfield Jenkins as its "First Citizen." The award 
would have been appropriate in any season of his remarkable career.

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