Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Panton, Gilbert C., 1967 

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GILBERT CLIFTON PANTON

   NEWPORT NEWS - A funeral service for Gilbert C. Panton was conducted 
Friday, April 14 at 2 p.m. in Parkview Methodist Church by the Rev. Allen D. 
Minter.  Burial was in Poplar Spring Cemetery, Franklin, with Riverside 
Funeral Home in charge.

   Pallbearers were H.E. Branch, O.C. Rogers, Elmore Blosomer, C.M. Staley, 
R.D. Clintsman and J.B. Lewis.

   Panton, 60, of 6129 Jefferson Ave. died Wednesday in Riverside Hospital 
after a sudden illness.

   He lived here 35 years and worked for Newport News Ship-building & Dry 
Dock Co.  He was a member of Parkview Methodist Church, its Hornsby Bible 
Class, and was a steward.

   Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Janice S. Panton; his mother, Mrs. Mattie 
Panton of Suffolk; a son, Scott Panton of Hampton; a daughter, Mrs. Rebecca 
P. Silcox of Newport News; two brothers, John H. Panton of Franklin and R.G. 
Panton of Richmond; and a grandchild.


Gilbert Clifton PANTON, of Newport News, shipyard employee, 
d. 12 Apr 1967, Newport News, age 60, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Annex 2, Plot 161*), Franklin, 
   14 Apr 1967, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Apr. 20, 1966, p. 8 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
    Poplar Spring list: 
 http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/psanx2.txt 


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