Sussex-Surry-Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Holt, Oscar L., 1982 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/va/vafiles.htm ************************************************ OSCAR LEE HOLT WAKEFIELD - Oscar Lee Holt, 83, died Thursday in a Roanoke hospital. A retired farmer and banker in Sussex County, he was a member of Rocky Hock United Methodist Church, where he was on the administrative board and was a former teacher in Sunday school. He was a graduate of Blackstone Military Academy. He had been on the board of directors of Sussex and Surry Bank since 1943. He was president of the bank from 1963 to 1973. He was a member of the Sussex County board of Supervisors from 1949 to 1971. He was a charter member and past president of the Wakefield Ruritan Club. He served on the Virginia State Board of Agriculture and Immigration from 1963 to 1971 and in 1940 became the first president of the Peanuts and Hog Growers in Virginia. He was the head of several committees that introduced the peanut support price in the early 1940s, and was a member of the Virginia Peanut Commission. From 1942 to 1952, he was president of the Sussex County farm bureau. He was a past president of the Surry-Sussex-Southampton Mutual Fire Insurance Company. Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Myrtle Betts Holt; two daughters, Mrs. Nancy H. Vaughan of Richmond and Mrs. Dorothy H. Dubar of Roanoke; two sisters, Mrs. Mary H. Rogers of Waverly and Miss Nancy Binford Holt of Sun City, Fla.; A brother, William Holt of Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; five grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. A funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday in Purviance Funeral Chapel, Wakefield by the Rev. J.M. Tongue. Burial will be in Wakefield Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 tonight in the funeral home. ****************************************************************************** OSCAR LEE HOLT WAKEFIELD - A funeral service for Oscar Lee Holt, 83, was held Sunday at 2 p.m. in Purviance Funeral Chapel, Wakefield by the Revs. J.M. Tongue and L.P. Bland. Burial was in Wakefield Cemetery. Holt died Thursday in a hospital. A native of Southampton County, he was the husband of Myrtle Betts Holt. A graduate of Blackstone Military Academy, he was a member of the board of directors and a past president of the Bank of Sussex and Surry and was presently president emeritus. Holt was a past member of the board of supervisors of Sussex County and the Virginia State Board of Agriculture and Immigration. He was the first president of the Peanut and Hog Growers Association and headed committees which introduced the peanut support price by the federal government in the early 1940s. He was a past president of the Sussex County Farm Bureau and the Surry Sussex and Southampton Mutual Fire Insurance Co. He was a former member of the Virginia Peanut Commission. Holt was a member and honorary trustee of Rocky Hock United Methodist Church, served on its administrative board and taught in its Sunday school. He was a charter member and past president of the Wakefield Ruritan Club and was active in the Wakefield Shad Planking. Other survivors include two daughters, Nancy N. Vaughan of Richmond and Dorothy H. Dunbar of Roanoke; a brother, William Holt of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; two sisters, Mary H. Rogers of Waverly and Nancy B. Holt of Sun City, Fla.; five grandchildren; and a great-granddaughter. Oscar Lee HOLT, retired farmer & banker, b. 15 Feb 1899, Southampton Co., d. 16 Sep 1982, Roanoke, interred in Wakefield Cemetery*, 19 Sep 1982, "Daily Press" (Newport News), Sep. 18, 1982, p. 6; "Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Sep. 23, 1982, p. 16A *Wakefield list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/cemeteries/wakefd.txt His widow's obit ("Daily Press," May 22, 1997, p. 28) is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/h430m4ob.txt Memorials (Rocky Hock Methodist Church bulletin, Jan. 10, 2010) for Oscar & his father, Aurelius Walter HOLT (1873 - 1943) are posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/h430a3ob.txt A similar memorial for his wife, Leafie Dell (BINFORD) HOLT (1878 - 1911), is posted at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/h430l3ob.txt Contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Mrs. Bruce Saunders (bs4403@verizon.net), and re-formatted by File Manager Matt Harris. file at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/sussex/obits/h430o1ob.txt