Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Lovitt, Jane July 16, 1969
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The Virginian Pilot July 17, 1969 


Norfolk-Miss Jane Lovitt, 88, of 705 Redgate Ave., a member of an old Virginia 
family and a former member of the staff of the Norfolk Public Library on 
Freemason Street, died Wednesday in a hospital.
Miss Lovitt was born in 1881 at “Namozine Plantation” in Dinwiddie County and 
was a daughter of Henry C. and Mrs. Jane Hamim Lovitt.
She was widely known for her intimate knowledge of old Virginia families and 
customs and for the sense of humor she exhibited in discussing them.
She was an authority on the works of Charles Dickens, having read all of the 
novels of the British author many times since she was a child.
And although she was well-known throughout the Norfolk area for her activities 
while a member of the staff of the old Freemason Street Library, she once 
laughingly remarked that she was far better acquainted with the characters in 
Dickens’ novels than with her contemporaries.
When Miss Lovitt was a child she came to Norfolk to live with her grandfather 
Lovitt, a member of the City Council, in the old Reuben Lovitt House on 
Freemason Street.
While there she attended Phillips & West School for Young Ladies. Later when 
her family moved to Norfolk, she lived with them in the Brambleton section, 
which a branch of her family the Brambles, owned at one time.
Miss Lovitt was widely connected with many old Virginia families, one of her 
grandmothers being a cousin of the famous Confederate Gen. A.P. Hill. 
A former member of Old Trinity Church in Dinwiddie County, Miss Lovitt later 
became a member of Epworth United Methodist Church in Norfolk, where she was a 
member of the Woman’s Bible Class and the Woman’s Society.
Miss Lovitt was responsible for cataloging the church library for circulation.
After her retirement from the Norfolk Public Library System she served many 
years as the medical librarian for Norfolk General Hospital.
Surviving are several nieces and cousins, among them Charles Henry Cuthbert IV 
of Petersburg.
The body was taken to H.D. Oliver’s Funeral Apartments. A funeral services will 
be held today at 2 p.m. in Epworth United Methodist Church by the Rev. Owen T. 
Kelly Burial will be in Elmwood Cemetery.



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