Southampton County-Portsmouth City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Griffin, W. Sully Jr., 1959 

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Mass is Held For Mr. Griffin 

  FRANKLIN - A requiem mass was celebrated by the Rev. Lawrence A. Griffin 
today at 11 a. m., at St. Paul's Catholic Church, Portsmouth, for William Suly 
[sic; Sully] Griffin Jr.  The Rev. William D. McGonigle, pastor of St. Jude's 
Catholic Church, conducted the burial service in Oak Grove Cemetery, 
Portsmouth.  A rosary service was held Monday night at the W.J.M. Holland 
Funeral Home, Franklin. 

  Mr. Griffin, 55, resident engineer for the Virginia Highway Department, died 
Saturday night at his home here after several months illness. 

  A 1928 graduate of Virginia Military Institute, his first job was as civil 
engineer with the Virginian Railway in West Virginia.  In 1930 he joined the 
state highway department and since 1940 had served in its Suffolk district, 
working as assistant resident engineer in the Norfolk office and resident 
engineer at Suffolk. 

  In 1953 he became resident engineer here in charge of highways of 
Southampton and Greenville counties. 

  He was a member of Franklin Rotary Club and of St. Jude's Catholic Church. 

  A son of William S. and Laura Parker Grifin, he was a native of Portsmouth. 

  Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Virginia Barrett Griffin; a son, William S. 
Griffin III, a daughter, Mrs. Emmett F. Reese II, of Courtland; three 
brothers, the Rev. Lawrence A. Griffin of Buffalo, N.Y., Dr. Joseph P. 
Griffin of Wilmington, Del., and Kenneth R. Griffin of Portsmouth; a sister, 
Mrs. John H. Lohman of Portsmouth; nieces and nephews. 


William Sully GRIFFIN, Jr., VA Highway Dept. resident engineer, 
b. 1 Dec 1904, Portsmouth, d. 19 Dec 1959, at home, Franklin, 
interred in Oak Grove Cemetery (Plot G-674*), Portsmouth, 
"Suffolk (VA) News-Herald," Vol. 37, No. 201, Tues., Dec. 22, 1959, p. 3 

*Additional information: 

A photo of his gravestone - added by Steve Poole - is posted with 
   Find a Grave Memorial #48831294. 

His parents are buried in the same plot. 

None of them appear on the Portsmouth City VA USGenWeb Archives 
   Oak Grove list: 
http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/portsmouth/cemeteries/oakgrove3.htm 

D.Cert. 32442 (Franklin #146) 


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