Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Plant, Robert W. October 28, 2003
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Virginian-Pilot  October 29, 2003
NORFOLK - Robert William Plant, 90, of the 700 block of Shirley Ave., died Oct. 
28, 2003, in a Virginia Beach nursing facility.
Mr. Plant was a native of Wheeling, W.Va. and a resident of Tidewater since 1945. 
He attended Potomac State College and Old Dominion University. He was a member of 
Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Norfolk.
Mr. Plant was a lifelong musician. He was a trumpet player, arranger and band 
leader. He played with local bands until 2002. He toured the country with many 
famous big bands in the 1930s and early 1940s. He retired as a Navy musician in 
1973 and continued his musical involvement with many local bands. During his 
military career he also had a band at Breezy Point Officers Club, called the 
Continentals. He was a Navy veteran of World War II, a member of the Local 
Musicians Union and the Fleet Reserve Association.
Survivors include his wife of 60 years, Elizabeth Jane Jacobi Plant; five 
daughters, Mary Anne Johnson of Virginia Beach, Becky J. Graham and her husband, 
James, of Norfolk, Lynne Teller and her husband, Kurt, of Norfolk, Susan J. 
Kitchens and her husband, David, of Sunnyvale, Calif., and Theresa M. Schindler 
and her husband, Ronald, of Portsmouth; two sons, Charles Anthony Plant, of 
Norfolk and James V. Plant, of Suffolk; his brother, Richard Cowgill, of 
Charleston, W.Va.; and his sisters, Ruth Bongort, of New Jersey and Nancy Love, of 
Charleston; 12 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.
The Mass of the Resurrection will be conducted at 10 a.m. Friday at Sacred Heart 
Catholic Church by the Rev. Daniel V. Klem. Entombment will be at St. Mary’s 
Catholic Cemetery. A Christian wake will be held in H.D. Oliver Funeral Apts., 
Norfolk chapel, Thursday at 7 p.m. Memorial donations may be made to the American 
Kidney Fund or the American Heart Fund.

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