Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Whitehead, Hugh Grigsby February 21, 1964
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Virginian Pilot and The Portsmouth Star February 22, 1964
Hugh Grigsby Whitehead, 89 Norfolk Banking Dean

Hugh Grigsby Whitehead, 89, of 1214 Daniel Ave., former manager of the York 
Street branch of Seaboard Citizens National Bank, died Friday at 1 p.m. in a 
hospital.
The dean of Norfolk bankers, he retired in January 1953, ending a career that 
began in 1881 when he joined the old Norfolk National Bank as a runner.
A Norfolk native, he was a son of Henry Colgate and Mrs. Margaret Walke Taylor 
Whitehead and the husband of Mrs. Irene Burwell Whitehead.
Educated at Norfolk Academy, he began his career at 17.  He rose to paying 
teller for Norfolk National Bank and then became cashier of Virginia Bank & 
Trust Co. in 1905
He remained with Virginia Bank & Trust, which was nationalized in 1910, for 26 
years, and served as vice president and then president.  He pioneered the 
establishment of branch banking in the Norfolk area.
In 1933 he joined Seaboard Citizens National Bank as assistant manager of its 
York Street branch.  He later was made manager and served in that capacity until 
his retirement in 1953.
For 39 year he was board chairman of the Sinking Fund Commissioners of the City 
of Norfolk.
He was also treasurer of the Norfolk Chamber of Commerce for 22 years and a 
former trustee of the City Employes Retirement System.
As an athlete in the 1900s, he was Virginia's top tennis player for several 
years and with James Horner Winston of Chicago, won the national doubles clay 
court championship in Omaha, Neb., in 1911.
Also keenly interested in boating in his earlier years, he sailed a 40-foot 
sloop from Norfolk to Newport, R.I., in 1899.  Despite a severe Atlantic storm, 
he and his five companions reached their destination without injury.
He was a former member and treasurer of the Norfolk Boat Club and the Norfolk 
Yacht and Country Club and a member of the old Norfolk Golf Club.
A former vestryman of Christ and St. Luke's Episcopal Church, he was a member of 
Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd at the time of his death.
Besides his wife he is survived by three daughters, Mrs. Richard M. Marshall, 
Mrs. Herbert N. Lee and Mrs. Elizabeth Whitehead Kelsey of Norfolk; a son, Dr. 
Hugh G. Whitehead of Washington; nine grandchildren and five great-
grandchildren.
The body will be taken from H.D. Oliver Funeral Apartments to Elmwood Cemetery 
for a funeral service Sunday at 2 p.m. by the Rev. Sydney C. Swann Jr. of 
Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd.
The family requests that flowers be omitted.
The family will be at 1214 Daniel Ave.

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