Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Melvin, Howard L., 1948 

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HOWARD LOYLESS MELVIN

   Howard Loyless Melvin, 42, husband of Mrs. Nancy Moorman White Melvin, 
died at the residence near Franklin on the morning of Wednesday, November 24, 
after a long period of ill health.

   He was the son of Samuel Oscar and Bessie Black Melvin of Greensboro, N.C., 
and a member of the Bethel Friends Meeting.  He graduated from Guilford 
College, N.C., in the class of 1929.  For several years following his 
graduation he taught school in eastern North Carolina, being principal of the 
high schools first at Roper and later at Aulander.

   Surviving him, besides his wife and parents, are three brothers, J.T. 
Melvin and Charles Melvin of Greensboro and Woodrow W. Melvin of West Palm 
Beach, Fla.; one sister, Mrs. Earl Armstrong of Greensboro; and several 
nephews.

   Funeral services for Mr. Melvin were conducted Friday afternoon at three 
o’clock at the graveside in Poplar Spring Cemetery by James R. Stein of Sedley 
and James Hage Ricks of Richmond.

   The pallbearers were Thomas N. White, Jr., John D. Abbitt, William T. 
Woodley, G. Warren Taylor, Isaac C. White and R.R. Lankford.


Howard Loyless MELVIN, former NC teacher & principal, 
Greensboro, NC native?, d. 24 Nov 1948, at home, near Franklin, age 42, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 1, Plot 50*), Franklin, 
   26 Nov 1948, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Dec. 10, 1948, p. 13 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 


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