Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Parker, Nathan Lafayette Sr. December 3, 1938
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Norfolk Virginian Pilot December 4, 1938

                MAN IS FATALLY HURT BY TRUCK ON OVERPASS

       Nathan L. Parker Struck by Motor Vehicle as He Trundles Bicycle

Nathan L. Parker, 53-year-old carpenter, of 1703 East Liberty Street, 
Oakdale, Norfolk County, was killed by a truck which struck him on the 
Virginian Railway overpass, on the Bainbridge Boulevard last night about 6 
o'clock.
Parker was walking and pushing a bicycle across the overpass, in the 
direction of South Norfolk, when the truck, owned by the Orange Crush 
Bottling Company and operated by Lewis Rue, and going in the same direction, 
struck him, it was reported by Detective Leon Nowitzky, investigator for Dr. 
C.D.J. MacDonald city coroner.  Parker was pronounced dead on arrival at St. 
Vincent's Hospital.
Nowitzky said the truck driver explained that due to the rainfall and 
glaring lights of approaching vehicles, he had not seen Parker until the 
accident had occurred.  Dr. MacDonald said Parker had multiple injuries of 
the head and chest.
Mr. Parker was a native of Hertford, N.C., a son of the late Thomas 
Jefferson and Mrs. Mary Sarah Saunders Parker, and had made his home in this 
section 36 years. Surviving him are his wife, Mrs. Hattie V. Parker; four 
daughters, Mrs. J.W. Horton, South Norfolk; Mrs. J.T. Porter, Portsmouth; 
Mrs. B.J. Shettle and Miss Catherine Parker, South Norfolk; a son, Nathan L. 
Parker, Jr., Portsmouth; three sisters, Mrs. H.C. Wright, South Norfolk; 
Mrs. Emmett Fowler, Benning, D.C. and Mrs. C.H. Harmon, Colerain, N.C., and 
four grandchildren.
The body was removed to the Graham Funeral Home, Jackson and Jefferson 
Streets, South Norfolk, pending funeral arrangements.

Complete article in Norfolk Virginian Pilot Sunday December 4, 1938 Part 2, 
pages 1 and 4
 

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