Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Pretlow, Jane D. Bogart, 1930 

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JANE DICKSON BOGART PRETLOW

   Mrs. Janey Bogart Pretlow, wife of R.A. Pretlow of this town, died suddenly 
at her home in South High Street Friday afternoon, May 30.  Mrs. Pretlow was 
the daughter of the late John H. Bogart and Mrs. Mary Barrett Bogart of 
Franklin, her father, who was a native of Savannah, Georgia, being for many 
years one of the most prominent figures in Tidewater Virginia and Eastern 
North Carolina.  Besides her husband, she leaves two sons, Bogart A. Pretlow 
of New York and Bobby Pretlow; a daughter, Miss Evelyn Pretlow, and one 
brother, W.O. Bogart of Franklin.

   Mrs. Pretlow, who was in her fifty-fifth year, was a charming woman of 
unusual intellectual attainments.  She was one of the charter members and 
organizers of the Franklin Book Club, a charter member of the Franklin Music 
Study Club, and belonged to the Woman’s Club of Franklin in this organization 
being especially interested in the establishment of a public library for the 
town.

   She graduated in 1892 from the Leach-Wood Seminary of Norfolk, and was a 
charter member of the Irene Leach Memorial, the nucleus of the Norfolk Society 
of Arts.  She was a communicant of Emmanuel Episcopal Church and a useful 
member of Agnes Lee Chapter, Daughters of the Confederacy.

   Funeral services were held from the Pretlow home Sunday afternoon at 4:30 
o’clock, conducted by Rev. J. Sutherland-Watt, rector of Emmanuel Church, 
assisted by Rev. R.D. Stephenson.  Private interment followed in the family 
plot in Poplar Spring Cemetery, the pallbearers being; J.C. Cause of Suffolk, 
Ashley P. Cutchin, Jr. of Petersburg, Dr. E.A. deBordenave, Col. E.E. Goodwyn 
of Emporia, Dr. Southgate Leigh of Norfolk, Geo. H. Parker, Jno. C. Parker, 
Jr. and Dr. Beaman Story.


Jane "Janey" Dickson (BOGART; Mrs. Robert A.) PRETLOW, civic leader, 
Southampton Co. native, d. 30 May 1930, at home, Franklin, age 55, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 28B*), Franklin, 
   1 Jun 1930, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), June 6, 1930, p. 1 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS}, Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

Her parents are buried in Section 1, Plot 36. 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar1.txt 

Her mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Aug. 19, 1921, p. 1), with their 
   marriage record appended, is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b263m1ob.txt 

Her husband's obit ("Tidewater News," July 19, 1946, p. 1), with their 
   marriage record appended, is posted at: 
http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/p634r5ob.txt 


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and re-formatted by File Manager. 

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