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   Nansemond County-Suffolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries......Cross, Marion A., 1958
   
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   MARION AUSTIN CROSS
   
   M.A. CROSS, SUFFOLK CIVIC AND BUSINESS LEADER, DIES
   
   Suffolk - Marion Austin Cross, 80, widely-known Suffolk businessman and civic
   leader, died Monday at 7:40 a.m. at Obici Memorial Hospital after an illness of
   several months.
   
   Mr. Cross a native of Sunbury, N.C. came to Suffolk in 1895 as a youth of 17
   as a clerk in a grocery store on North Main Street. After a few months he became
   a traveling salesman and in 1905 he and the late R.W. Baker established the
   Nansemond Grocery Co., with which he has been identified ever since. First
   general manager, he became president in 1928 after the death of Baker.
   
   He had been a member of the board of the Farmers Bank of Nansemond since 1919
   and was a former director of the Bank of Sunbury.
   
   HELD CITY POSTS
   
   Mr. Cross also has served in official positions in the city. He was a school
   board member from 1933 through 1939 and has been a member of the electoral board
   since 1911, the year Suffolk became a city. He was chairman of the electoral
   board during his later years.
   
   In recent years he was perhaps best known in his capacity as president of
   Louise Obici Memorial Hospital, having held that post ever since the hospital
   corporation was formed by Amedeo Obici 1942.
   
   He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Evelyn Hurff Cross; four sons, M.A. Cross,
   Jr., Joseph M. Cross III and John Franklin Cross II of Suffolk and Wilbur R.
   Cross of Richmond; two daughters, Mrs. Emily Cross Jones of Franklin and Mrs.
   Mary Evelyn Cross Hayes Jr. of Little Rock, Ark.; a sister, Mrs. Dora Cross
   Jordan of Suffolk, and seven grandchildren, Milton Randolph Jones and Emerson P.
   Jones JR. of Franklin, Joseph M. Cross IV, Sarah Hewes Cross and John Franklin
   Cross III of Suffolk, James Albert Hayes of Little Rock and Susan Kittrell Cross
   of Richmond.
   
   RITES WEDNESDAY
   
   Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday at 2:30 p.m. at Main Street
   Methodist Church by the Rev. George S. Lightner.
   
   
   [Marion Austin CROSS, Sunbury, NC native, d. 23 Jun 1958, Suffolk, age 80,
   interred in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Suffolk, 25 Jun 1958,"The Suffolk (VA) News Herald," June 23, 1958]
   
   [file transcribed by Mrs. Bruce Saunders ((XXXXX@XXXX.XXX)),
   and re-formatted by File Manager.]

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