Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Roberts, Leonard Pascal Sr. December 10, 1939
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Norfolk Virginian Pilot December 11, 1939

            L. P. ROBERTS, Sr., LONG BUSINESS and CIVIC LEADER, DIES

           Funeral Services Tomorrow at Noon for Well-Known Norfolk Man

Leonard Pascal Roberts, Sr., prominent wholesale and retail grocer here for more 
than half a century, died at his residence, 929 Redgate Avenue, yesterday at 
12:45 p.m. after an illness of a week. He was 87 years of age.
Mr. Roberts, who retired from active business in 1936, was president of the 
former L.P. Roberts & Co., which was situated on Commercial Place and had been a 
director of the National Bank of Commerce for a number of years. He had been a 
resident of Norfolk for 75 years.
Mr. Roberts was serving on the board of directors of the National Bank of 
Commerce at the time of his death and had been a director of the old National 
Bank of Norfolk before its consolidation with the Bank of Commerce.
                            Leader in Community
A native of Northampton County, Mr. Roberts was the son of the late Leonard W. 
and Mrs. Laura Savage Roberts. For many years he had been one of the most 
prominent wholesale and retail grocers in Norfolk and was one of the city's most 
outstanding civic and fraternal leaders.
He was a member of Freemason Street Baptist Church and was chairman of the 
church's Fellowship Fund for a number of years, prior to his retirement in 
October of this year on account of failing health. His fraternal connections 
included membership in Ruth Lodge No. 89, A.F. & A.M., Norfolk United Royal Arch 
Chapter No. 1, Grice Commandery No. 16, Knights Templar, Khedive Temple, the 
Shrine and the Scottish Rites bodies.
He is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Eugene L. Graves and Mrs. Milton B. 
Ames, both of Norfolk and Mrs. S.B. Moore, of Portsmouth; three sons, City 
Councilman L.P. Roberts, Jr., of Norfolk; H.H. Roberts of Miami , Fla. and 
Littleton S. Roberts, of Sheffield, Ala.; 16 grandchildren and 8 great-
grandchildren.
The body will be taken from the Cox Funeral Home to Freemason Street Baptist 
Church for funeral services tomorrow at 12 o'clock noon. The Rev. Sparks W. 
Melton, D.D., pastor of the church, will conduct the services. Burial will be in 
the family plot in Elmwood Cemetery.


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