Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pritchard, Peleg Mellen February 19, 1934
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 The Virginian Pilot and Norfolk Landmark Tuesday February 20, 1934
P.M. Pritchard Dies Suddenly

Widely-Known Steamboat Agent Fatally Stricken With Heart Attack

P. Mellens Pritchard, general agent here for the Norfolk and Washington 
Steamboat Company, died suddenly of a heart attack yesterday morning at 
10:30 o'clock at his home, 511 Main street, Berkley. He was 63 years old.
Mr. Pritchard was widely known in Tidewater Virginia and was active in the 
church and civic life of his community. News of his death came as a shock to 
his many friends.
Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at the 
Berkley Avenue Baptist Church, of which Mr. Pritchard had been a member 
since his youth. At the time of his death he was a deacon of the church, 
financial secretary and a member of the church choir, noted for his fine 
tenor voice.
Mr. Pritchard was the son of the late Peleg Mellens Pritchard, a confederate 
veteran, and Mrs. Sarah Gibbs Pritchard. Besides his wife, Mrs. Nannette 
Pritchard, he is survived by three brothers, Samuel J., Wharton H. and J. 
Raymond Pritchard; two sisters, Miss Kate Pritchard and Mrs. W.H. Butt, and 
an uncle, John Gibbs, of Norfolk.
Mr. Pritchard was a member of the Norfolk Kiwanis Club and the Norfolk-
Portsmouth Traffic Club.
Serving his apprenticeship in transportation with the Norfolk Southern 
Railroad in his early youth, Mr. Pritchard later became connected with the 
Old Bay Line, and finally on September 19, 1907, joined the staff of the 
Norfolk and Washington Steamboat Company, and remained with that company for 
the 26 years up to his death.
Mr. Pritchard appeared to be in good health and spirits Sunday, attending 
the morning services at the Berkley Avenue Baptist Church and coming to 
Norfolk for the night service at Ghent Methodist Church.
Funeral arrangements have been completed by the J.R. Williams Funeral Home 
and burial will be in the family plot in Magnolia Cemetery.


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