Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pierce, Bernard Puryear December 13, 1919
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Virginian Pilot and The Norfolk Landmark December 14, 1919

Bernard P. Pierce, 20 years old, a brakeman on the N.Y.P. & N. Railroad, was 
caught between a moving car and a platform in Port Norfolk at 10:30 o'clock 
yesterday morning, and injured to such an extent that he died a half hour later 
as he was being lifted into an ambulance to be taken to the hospital.
Captain Land, of the Port Norfolk police precinct, sent Policeman Revere to the 
scene when the accident was reported and after Pierce's death he notified Dr. 
Glover, the coroner.  He permitted the removal of the body to Cox & Myers 
Funeral Apartments, where it was viewed at 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon by a 
coroner's jury.  An inquest will be held next Thursday night in police 
headquarters.
It was stated by the police that when Pierce was caught between the moving car 
and the platform his body was rolled through close contact, injuring him to such 
an extent that he was unconscious when he was extricated.
Pierce was the son of Rev. E.S. Pierce, a Baptist clergyman, of Farmville, Va.  
Besides his father he is survived by two sisters and four brothers.  He served 
with the A.E.F. in France during the war without injury.  He had been in the 
employ of the N.Y.P & N. for two months.  He lived with his uncle, J.Q. Pierce, 
at 507 First Street.
The body is being held pending directions from his father as to funeral service.
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PIERCE - Suddenly, in Port Norfolk, Va., on Saturday morning, December 13, 1919, 
at 11 o'clock, BERNARD P. PIERCE, aged 20 years.
The funeral service will be conducted in the residence of Mrs. H.C. McGehee, 518 
Edwards Street, this city, at 12 o'clock TODAY.  Friends are invited to be 
present.  Burial in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Norfolk.

Virginian Pilot and The Norfolk Landmark December 15, 1919

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