Suffolk City-Nansemond County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Farnell, Daniel N. Jr., 1975 

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DANIEL NEWTON FARNELL

FORMER CITY COUNCILMAN, D.N.FARNELL, DIES AT 73

   Daniel Newton Farnell, Jr., 73, of 310 Country Club Drive, a former 
Greensboro City County member and attorney for the Greensboro-High Point Airport 
Authority for many years, died Monday afternoon at the desk in his office in the 
Jefferson Building.

   The funeral will be held in the chapel of the First Presbyterian Church, of 
which he was a former deacon, by the pastor, the Rev. Joseph B. Mullin, at 2 
p.m. Wednesday and burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery. The body is at Forbes 
and Dick Funeral Home.

   A native of Suffolk, Va., Farnell received undergraduate and law degrees from 
Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va. He also did graduate work at the 
University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.

   Farnell was licensed to practice in North Carolina in 1924 and moved to 
Greensboro, where he was an assistant solicitor in Guilford Superior Court a few 
years.

   He married the former Lula Moore Suttle of Shelby in 1929. He would have been 
74 years old Oct. 24.

   He was a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar Association 
and Greensboro Bar Association of which he was a past president. He also had 
held the presidencies of the Greensboro Kiwanis Club, the Thursday Night Whist 
Club and the N.C. Railroad Co.  He was a member of the Roundtable Club and the 
Greensboro County Club.

   For several years he represented the Bessemer Sanitary District and was 
instrumental in the negotiations for merging that area into the City of 
Greensboro in 1957. He was a member of the city council for one term, 1957-59.

   Much of the early expansion of the Regional Airport was affected during his 
tenure as attorney for the airport authority.

   Surviving besides his widow are his daughter, Mrs. Gloria Farnell Cowan; 
four grandchildren; sister, Mrs. Vallie Farnell of Suffolk, Va.


[Daniel Newton FARNELL, Jr., former Greensboro councilman, 
 Suffolk native, d. 29 Sep 1975, Greensboro, NC, age 73, 
 interred in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Greensboro, NC, 1 Oct 1975, 
 "The Greensboro (NC) Daily News," Oct. 1, 1975] 

[file transcribed by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), 
 and re-formatted by File Manager.]