Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Simpson, John Randolph September 8, 1953 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Dorothy Strawhand https://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00034.html#0008405 August 6, 2016, 12:14 pm The Norfolk Virginian Pilot September 9, 1953 John Randolph Simpson, 89, died at a Virginia Beach hospital yesterday at 6:50 p.m. after an illness of nine weeks. He was the son of the late William Washington and Mrs. Rebecca Yealdhall Simpson. Besides his wife, Mrs. Edna McCombs Simpson, he is survived by two sons, W. Clyde Simpson, Sr., of Pine Bluff, N.C., and Granville B. Simpson, of Norfolk County; three daughters, Mrs. Rufus S. Knight and Mrs. R.W. Sturgis, of Norfolk; and Mrs. F. W. Youry, of Alexandria; 12 grandchildren; 14 great grandchildren; two stepsons, Robert R. and John W. McCombs, both of Virginia Beach. Mr. Simpson was born in Norfolk County September 19, 1864, and had resided in this section all his life. For the past 31 years he had lived at Virginia Beach, where he was a member of the Virginia Beach Methodist Church. Funeral services will be conducted at the Cox Funeral Home tomorrow at 2 p.m. by the Rev. Graham S. Carlton, pastor of the Virginia Beach Methodist Church. Burial will be in the family plot in Elmwood Cemetery. The Norfolk Virginian Pilot September 9, 1953 Additional Comments: Elmwood File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/s/simpson12081gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb