Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Old, Curtis Lee August 9, 1949
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Norfolk Virginian Pilot Wednesday August 10, 1949
Curtis Lee Old Long Active in Public Affairs
Chesapeake Building Head Succumbs at 77 While On Job; Rites Tomorrow

Curtis Lee Old, 77, of 7000 Hampton Boulevard, Meadowbrook, president of the 
Chesapeake Building Association, died of a heart attack yesterday about 2 p.m. 
while serving with a committee of real estate appraisers in Pamlico. He had 
been in failing health several years.
Active in public life since he was 21, he served eight years as Town Recorder 
of Berkley, was land assessor for Norfolk County, served on the county's School 
Electoral Board, was county sheriff, served in the House of Delegates, and was 
treasurer of the Jamestown Exposition.
Prominent in financial circles in this section for nearly half a century, he 
also had been treasurer of the Berkley Permanent Building and Loan Association 
since 1926 and a director for 45 years. He had been a director of the 
Chesapeake Association for a like period.
Co-founder with Alvah H. Martin, of the Merchants & Planters Bank in 1900, he 
later was assistant cashier and at his death was the oldest member in age and 
point of service on the bank's board.
A native of the Butts Road District of Norfolk County, his late parents were 
George Martin and Mrs. Aquilla Old.
Settling in Berkley at an early age, he was educated in the public and private 
schools there. He later attended the Norfolk Business College.
Elected Recorder
Soon after attaining his majority, he was elected by the Town Council of 
Berkley as Town Recorder, a position he occupied for four terms. He was land 
assessor in 1905 for the Second Revenue District of Norfolk County.
Moving to Norfolk in 1907, he became assistant treasurer of the Jamestown 
Exposition and established his residence on the exposition grounds. He later 
was appointed treasurer and after the close of the exposition was named cashier 
for the receivers. He had charge of the exposition grounds until it was sold in 
1912.
While at the exposition, he served as a member of the School Electoral Board of 
Norfolk County. He also was chairman of the Democratic Executive Committee of 
Norfolk County, and was elected to the House of Delegates from the county for 
the 1912 session.
In 1914 he was appointed sheriff of Norfolk County to serve the unexpired term 
of A.C. Cromwell, resigned.
H?e served as a member of the Board of Assessors for the City of Norfolk in 
1930.
He was the oldest member of the Doric Lodge No. 44, A.F. & A.M. An 
Episcopalian, he was a member of St. Bride's Church, Berkley, for nearly 40 
years. For a number of years he attended the Church of the Good Shepherd, 
Meadowbrook, where he was a past vestry man. 
He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Annie Gause Old; one daughter, Mrs. Harry S. 
Morrisette; one son, George Martin Old; one grandson, George Martin Old, Jr., 
all of Norfolk, and a number of nieces and nephews.
The body was removed to the Cox Funeral Home where services will be conducted 
tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. by the Rev. Norman Slater, rector of the Church of the 
Good Shepherd. Burial will be in Magnolia Cemetery.
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Curtis Lee Old -- Funeral services for Mr. Old, husband of Mrs. Annie Gause 
Old, who died Tuesday, were conducted at the Cox Funeral Home yesterday at 
10:30 a.m. by the RT. Rev. George P. Gunn bishop coadjutor, Episcopal Diocese 
of Virginia, and the Rev. Norman T. Slater, rector of the Church of the Good 
Shepherd.
Pallbearers were William P. Butt, Howard G. Martin, John R. Sears, Guy R. 
Beale, Dr. W. Dean Preston, David T. Dumm, Dr. J.C. Sleet, Dr. Z. Vance Jones 
and Jesse J. Parkerson.
Burial was in Magnolia Cemetery.

Norfolk Virginian Pilot Friday August 12, 1949

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