Southampton County-Virginia Beach City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Rawls, Eldridge W., 1962 

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ELDRIDGE WELLS RAWLS 

E.W. RAWLS, 46, PAINT COMPANY VICE PRESIDENT 

  BAYSIDE - Eldridge Wells Rawls, 46, of 23 Hermitage Point, Thoroughgood, 
vice president and one of the founders of Seaboard Paint co., died in a 
Norfolk hospital Tuesday at 12:45 p.m.

  A native of Capron, he lived in this area 29 years.

  He was a member of Bayside Christian Church.

  Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Edith Herbert Rawls; three sons Sadron 
Clyde Lambert, III, John Thomas Rawls II and Eldridge Wells Rawls, Jr. 
of Bayside; his mother, Mrs. Maud Felts Rawls of Portsmouth; two sisters, 
Mrs. B.F. Rountree and Mrs. Euclid M. Hanbury of Portsmouth; four brothers, 
Julian E. Rawls and Clyde M. Rawls of Portsmouth, Raymond G. Rawls of Capron 
and John Clayton Rawls of San Leandro, Calif.

  A funeral service will be conducted in Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home Thursday 
at noon by the Rev. Earl T. Farrell of Bayside Christian Church.  Burial will 
be in Forest Lawn Cemetery.


Eldridge Wells RAWLS, of Princess Anne Co., Seaboard Paint co-founder & VP, 
b. 8 Jan 1916, Capron, d. 26 Jun 1962, Norfolk, 
interred in Forest Lawn Cemetery (Crepe Myrtle Lawn, Block 4, Lot 32*), 
   Norfolk, 28 Jun 1962, 
"The Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), June 27, 1962 

*Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives, Forest Lawn list: 
http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/norfolkcity/cemeteries/forestlawn/flc09-portl-ra.html

His parents are buried in Capron Cemetery. 
   Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Capron list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/capron.txt 

Birthdate &c. from D.Cert. 15598 (Norfolk #1351). 


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