Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Whitley, Leroy October 13, 1955 ************************************************ 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 March 29, 2019, 3:27 pm The Virginian Pilot Friday October 14, 1955 SOUTH NORFOLK - Leroy Whitley, 72, owner and operator of a grocery store on the Great Bridge Road, died yesterday at 12:15 a.m. at his home, 2025 Hemple Street, after a short illness. A native of Hertford County, N.C., he had lived in this section for the last 52 years. His and Mrs. Ella Cullins Whitley. He was a member of Providence Baptist Church. Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Cordelia Sawyer Whitley; one daughter, Mrs. Hattie Riggs, of South Norfolk; one son, William Lemuel Whitley, of Norfolk, and two sisters, Mrs. Bessie Putney, of Roanoke Rapids, N.C., and Mrs. Nannie Sue Dudley, of Long Beach, Calif. Funeral services will be conducted tomorrow at 3 p.m. at the Graham Funeral Home. Burial will be in Magnolia Cemetery, Norfolk. Additional Comments: Magnolia Missing info in second sentence of second paragraph should probably read "His parents were Thomas J Whitley and Mrs. Ella Cullins Whitley" File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/obits/w/whitley15982gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/vafiles/ File size: 1.5 Kb