Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Keeling, Lucy Gertrude January 4, 1952
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The Norfolk Virginian Pilot January 6, 1952


Miss Lucy Keeling, Long Educator, To Be Buried Today

Funeral services for Miss Lucy Gertrude Keeling, educator in Norfolk County 
Schools for 55 years, who died Friday night at her residence, 319 West Bute 
Street, will be conducted today at 3 p.m. at the H.D. Oliver Funeral Apartments 
by the Rev. Moultrie Guerry, rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church. Burial will 
be in Elmwood Cemetery.
Miss Keeling became the first principal of the new Frances E. Willard School, 
built in 1929, and retained that position until 1945 when failing health forced 
her retirement.
She received her education at the Hemingway School, a private school for girls, 
later to become Norfolk High School; at the Norfolk College for Young Ladies, 
corner College Place and Granby Street, and summer sessions at various colleges 
in Virginia and at the Norfolk Division, College of William and Mary-VPI.
Her teaching career started at Huntersville Elementary School, then in Norfolk 
County, under the superintendence of Capt. J.P. West. One of the principals 
under whom she taught was A.H. Foreman who, when Captain West died, was named 
superintendent.
She then was elected principal of the Huntersville Grammar and High School. 
When this suburb was annexed to Norfolk, she was transferred to the 
principalship of Lafayette Elementary and High School, still a part of the city 
in 1910.
Born at London Bridge, Princes Anne County, she had resided in Norfolk since 
childhood.
Surviving are one nephew, Henry T. Keeling; one niece, Miss Mary Frances 
Keeling; seven cousins, Mrs. G.F. Birdsong, Mrs. S.M. Atkinson, T.E. 
Brickhouse, Miss Fanny W. Brickhouse, George G. Williams and Mrs. Virginia T. 
Laylor.


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