Norfolk City-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Nelms, Charles Wilson August 4, 1952
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Charles Nelms, Baptist Leader, Dies; Was 70

Was Once state Officer in TPA; Deacon of Freemason Church

Charles Wilson Nelms, 70, one of the city's outstanding Baptist laymen, 
fraternal leader, and former official of the State Travelers Protective 
Association, died Monday at 11:30 p. m., at his residence, 917 Jamestown 
Crescent.  He had been ill for three weeks.

A native of Nansemond County, he had lived in Norfolk since 1912.  He was a 
son of Joseph M. and Mrs. Jane Lufsey Nelms.

Since 1918, he had been employed as a salesman by the Richmond Paper Company.

He had been an active member of the Freemason Street Baptist Church for many 
years, having lately served as a deacon.  For 13 years he had been chairman of 
the general committee of the business management of the church.

An active member of Post B., TPA, of Norfolk, he had served as president and a 
director.  He also was a member of the TPA's Board, State Division, and a past 
president of the State Division.

He was a member of Ruth Lodge No. 89, A. F. and A. M.; Khedive Temple of the 
Shrine, and Auld Consistory, Scottish Rite Masons.

Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Hazel Currier Nelms; one daughter, Mrs. Kenneth 
J. Warren, of Cleveland, Ohio; one son, Lt. Charles W. Nelms, Jr., USN, of 
Patuxent River, Md.; one grandchild; two sisters, Mrs. Claude Luke, of Newport 
News, and Mrs. Frank Angles, of Baltimore, Md., and one brother, Hurley Nelms, 
of Nansemond County.

Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow at 11 a. m. at the Cox Funeral 
Home by the Rev. Sparks W. Melton, pastor emeritus of Freemason Street Baptist 
Church.

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Funerals

Charles Wilson Nelms - Funeral services for Mr. Nelms, who died at his 
residence, 917 Jamestown Crescent, Monday night, will be conducted at the Cox 
Funeral Home today at 11 a. m. by the Rev. Sparks W. Melton, D.D., pastor 
emeritus of Freemason Street Baptist Church.  Burial will be in Forest Lawn 
Cemetery.

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