Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Selden, James Walter January 11, 1951
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Norfolk Virginian Pilot January 13, 1951

                   Railway President's Cook Dies in El Paso, Tex.

James Walter Selden, Negro, a native of Norfolk, who for many years has cooked 
for the president of the Southern Pacific Railroad, died Thursday at his home in 
El Paso, Tex. after a short illness.
Before he left Norfolk in the 1920s Selden worked for the James G. Gill Company, 
coffee importers and roasters and was known affectionately as "De Byrd."
Surviving are his wife, Wilhemenia Selden, of El Paso; four sisters and two 
brothers, all of Norfolk.
The body will arrive here Tuesday and will be taken to the King Funeral Home on 
Church Street. Funeral services will be conducted Friday at the First Baptist 
Church on East Bute Street by the pastor, the Rev. R.W. Bowling. Burial will be 
in Calvary Cemetery.  


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