Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Oliver, Harry Diggs May 22, 1941
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Virginian-Pilot  May 25, 1941
HUNDREDS PAY FINAL TRIBUTE TO H. D. OLIVER

GATHERING OF FRIENDS AT FUNERAL OVERFLOW SACRED HEART CHURCH

Final respects to H. D. Oliver, who died Thursday after serving as a funeral 
director here for three-score years, were paid yesterday morning at funeral 
services conducted before an overflow congregation at the Sacred Heart Catholic 
Church.

In the funeral sermon, the Rev. Leo J. Ryan, D. D., of Richmond, formerly pastor 
of the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, spoke of the charity, generosity and 
kindness of Mr. Oliver, whom he described as a Christian gentleman in every sense 
of the word.

The Rev. Edward P. Kilgalen, pastor of the church, who officiated, said the 
attendance at the services was the largest for any similar occasion in his 
recollection.  The Rev. Robert J. Kealey, pastor of Holy Trinity Church, Ocean 
View, conducted the services at the graveside in St. Mary's Cemetery.

Present in the sanctuary were the Rt. Rev. Msgr. J. Kelliher, the Rev. M. G. 
Downing, C. S. S. R., the Rev. R. B. Kealey, the Rev. J. Turner, S. S. J., the 
Rev. J. O. Schmidhauser, the Rev. J. A. Brennan, the Rev. P. A. Vanganzewinkle, 
the Rev. P. P. Brennan, the Rev. J. Albert, S. S. J., the Rev A. Canas, the Rev. 
J. Igoe, the Rev. P. C. Blackburn, the Rev. M. J. Harrison, the Rev. Harold Nott, 
the Rev. Paul V. Heller, the Rev. T. P. Scannell, the Rev. P. A. Campbell, the 
REv. F. V. Bambrick and the Rev. T. Byrne.

Catholic, Protestant and Jewish clerical and lay leaders alike attended the 
services which opened at 10 o'clock before an already-filled edifice with the 
crowd taking up all available standing room and extending out to the steps leading 
to the nave.

The active pallbearers were assistants from the several funeral homes of the city.

HONORARY PALLBEARERS

The honorary pallbearers were: Judge O. L. Shackleford, Frank R. Ford, L. B. 
Rocke, Wirtdell L. Winn, Herbert Gerst, H. M. Wilkinson, T. J. East, Col. George 
C. Cabell, Theodore S. Garnett, W. L. Prieur, Jr., Cecil M. Robinson, A. Plummer 
Pannill, Lee F. Lawler, T. J. Hanlon, Col. Charles B. Borland, J. Watts Martin, 
Capt. John I. Clarke, E. J. Gorman, D. P. Paul, J. T. Moreland, R. M. Eastwood, M. 
T. Blassingham, Judge E. V. Gresham, Capt. George A. Bew, Dr. R. W. Woodhouse, 
James H. Johnston, C. J. Rudolphi, Alfred Anderson, J. Luke Whitehurst, A. Lee 
Rawlings, II, L. Terwilliger, R. S. Perkinson, William Dwyer, Norman R. Hamilton, 
Colgate W. Darden, Winder A. Harris, Douglas Gordon, George H. Lewis, Frederick 
Lewis, the Rev. Charles Field, 3d, the Rev. J. Ernest Thacker, the Rev. P. Roland 
Wagner, the Rev. John Fletcher Ward, the Rev. William P. Watkins, W. Garland 
Jones, John J. Carr, F. S. Sager, Joseph G. Fiveash, the Rev. E. E. Renn, Capt. 
Wash Lambert, Clarence W. Meakin, W. J. Hunt, H. O. Nichols, C. Fred Bonney, T. 
Hanford Cruser, Albert Roper, Alex H. Bell, Frank W. Evans, J. T. Knight, Russell 
Young, L. J. Upton, the Rev. William E. Callender, J. T. Holland, the Rev. W. C. 
Gum, the Rev. F. H. Scattergood, the Rev. B. M. Persinger, the Rev. W. H. T. 
Squires, C. Moran Barry, C. E. Wright, Curry Loflin, Walter H. Dey, W. L. Prieur, 
Sr., Capt. J. D. Wood, Dr. C. D. J. Macdonald, John F. Milan, C. M. Swann, J. W. 
Grandy, Jr., A. R. Newton, C. Wiley Grandy, J. M. Decker, Robert L. Orr, J. Frank 
Bell, W. Taylor Johnson, Milton Hirschler, Dr. R. S. Kight, Dr. P. St. L. Moncure, 

Dr. M. S. Fitchett, Dr. H. L. Myers, Dr. George T. Myers, Dr. R. S. Perkins, Dr. 
Levi Old, Dr. H. W. Phillips, Dr. R. L. Payne, Dr. F. C. Rinker, Dr. George 
Schenck, Dr. H. R. Seelinger, Dr. Harry Harrison, Dr. J. L. Dietrick, John R. 
Kilgour, Maj. F. H. Bondurant, George M. Payne, John W. Whitehurst, Ben B. 
Burroughs, the Rev. Moultrie Guerry, the Rev. L. Oakey Wilburn, the Rev. Jason L. 
MacMillan, the Rev. E. Ruffin Jones, William Petty Dickson, Dr. Julian L. Rawls, 
Dr. Frank H. Redwood, Dr. N. F. Rodman, Dr. A. V. Crosby, Dr. Foy Vann, Dr. 
Claiborne Willcox, L. S. Grove, R. L. Dobie, Charles Morgan.

Also Dr. W. E. Driver, Dr. Stanley H. Graves, Dr. A. B. Hodges, Col. Charles H. 
Consolvo, Dr. Lomax Gwathmey, Dr. William B. Newcomb, John Willis, Jr., John 
Willis, 3d, R. D. Cooke, George A. Heatherton, M. Daily Walsh, Joseph A. Caprio, 
Feliz ReDavid, the Rev. H. S. Hardcastle, Leroy Shulman, Dr. L. D. Mendoza, 
Maurice J. Greenwood, Bishop William A. Brown, Dr. A. A. Burke, Charles H. Beaton, 
B. J. King, A. G. LeCain, S. L. Nusbaum, Dr. H. L. Collier, T. Ralph Jones, David 
Pender, Judge James U. Goode, Judge B. D. White, D. H. Goodman, Eugene L. Graves, 
R. F. Trant, J. A. Addenbrook, A. Sansone, T. D. FitzGibbon, N. R. Joynes, W. 
Herbert Nash, J. J. Baecher, Dr. Sparks W. Melton, the Rev. Taylor Willis, the 
Rev. C. M. Gordon, the Rev. George P. Gunn, C. Q. Nugent, Goldsboro Serpell, 
Nathaniel Beaman, Jr., Charles M. Mansmach, J. D. Hofheimer, Charles L. Kaufman, 
Chief John F. Woods, Judge Allan R. Hanckel, Judge L. B. Way, Col. James Mann, Dr. 
G. Bentley Byrd, Robert P. Beaman, J. E. Burke, F. L. Nicholson, F. W. Curd, 
Randolph B. Cook, George Mason, J. A. Hagan, Ivor A. Page, A. B. Schwartzkopf, 
Capt. James G. Peake, David S. Hirschler, Joseph J. McPhillips, William Freeman, 
Dr. J. C. Sleet, W. P. Hilton, N. Bruce Powell, Maj. Paul Kear, G. L. Hall, Grover 
L. White, Dr. C. J. Andrews, Alan J. Hofheimer, W. H. Venable, C. C. Jones, A. H. 
Foreman, Thomas H. Willcox, B. Gray Tunstall, D. Baker Ames, Gus J. Boogades, L. 
H. Windholz, John B. Jenkins, E. H. Herbert, A. Joseph Banks, Dr. G. R. Berkley, 
M. B. Wagenhelm, Tazewell Taylor, H. E. Traylor, James Watters Martin, W. H. T. 
Loyall, James M. Hannon, L. Joe LeFaucheur, Redwood Richardson and Tom Derry.

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