Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pearson, Peter December 22, 1939
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Norfolk Virginian Pilot December 23, 1939

                          POPULAR SHIP CAPTAIN DEAD

             Peter Pearson, 81, Succumbs After Long, Interesting Life

Capt. Peter Pearson, aged 81, and one of the best known mariners in this part of 
the United States, died yesterday morning at 5:30 o'clock at his residence, 1815 
Arlington Avenue.
For many years he was superintendent of transportation for the P. Dougherty 
Company of Baltimore, which concern operated one of the largest fleets of tugs 
and barges on the East Coast. He was stationed in Norfolk for a number of years 
and was known to practically every steamship, schooner or barge captain from 
Florida to Maine. To his close friends he was known affectionately as "Captain 
Pete."
Born in Sweden, Captain Pearson came to Norfolk 23 years ago and made his home 
here.  He had many interesting experiences during his long life. He had been a 
skipper of many vessels and could always tell stories of narrow escapes from 
death in storms at sea.
He is survived by a son, James T. Pearson; three granddaughters, Mrs. Marshall 
Flannagan, Mrs. Franklin D. Pickard and Mary Eleanor Flannagan.
Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at the H.D. Oliver 
Funeral Apartments, 1501 Colonial Avenue and will be conducted by the Rev. M.J. 
Harrison and the Rev. M.J. Hartigan. Burial will be in St. Mary's Cemetery.
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PEARSON, CAPT. PETER – At the residence, No. 1815 Arlington avenue, Friday, 
December 22, 1939, at 5:30 o’clock a.m., CAPT. PETER PEARSON, in the 82nd year 
of his age. Services at the chapel of the H. D. Oliver Funeral Apartments, No. 
1501 Colonial avenue, SUNDAY AFTERNOON at 2 o’clock. Friends of the family are 
invited to attend. Interment, St. Mary’s Cemetery.

Norfolk Virginian-Pilot December 24, 1939

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