Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Powell, Jordan B. Sr., 1951 
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JORDAN BEALE POWELL

FORMER COMMISSIONER DIES FRIDAY MORNING AFTER MONTH'S ILLNESS

   Hurt in an accident at the Country Club on December 17, when he broke his 
leg just below the hip, and suffering from complications which failed yield to 
treatment, Dr. Jordan Beale Powell, former Town Commissioner, died Friday 
morning, February 2, in Raiford Memorial Hospital, to which he was carried 
following his injury.

   Dr. Powell was the husband of Mrs. Margaret Edwards Powell of Franklin, who 
survives him, and a son of the late Godwin Moore and Cornelia Ann Holloman 
Powell of Hertford County. N.C., where he was born July 2, 1885.

   Moving to Norfolk in early manhood, he entered the employ of Jacob Bennett, 
jeweler. In August, 1906, he graduated from the Philadelphia College of 
Horology and Optics. For several years, he was associated with an elder 
brother, Dr. John Mills Powell, in the firm of Powell Brothers, Jewelers and 
optometrists, later conducting the business alone. For the past three years he 
had been associated with Dr. Ernest B. Gatten, Jr., in the practice of 
optometry, with offices at 106 Third Avenue.

   He was a member of the Franklin Baptist Church and its Bruner Bible class, 
the Shriners, and the Lions Club. From 1942 to 1950 he was a member of the Town 
Commission.

   Besides his wife he is survived by a son, Dr. Jordan Beale Powell, Jr., of 
Ahoskie, N.C.; a granddaughter, Margaret Gatling Powell, also of Ahoskie; a 
sister, Mrs. J.A. Murphy of Boston, Mass; two brothers, Dr. C.G. Powell of 
Ahoskie and Dr. John Mills Powell of Galax; and a number of nieces and nephews.

   Funeral services were held at the graveside in Poplar Spring Cemetery at 2:30 
o'clock Sunday afternoon, with Revs. Randolph Gregory and Elmer N. Hassell 
officiating, following by Masonic rites. Active pallbearers were W.R. Atkinson, 
Robert E. Coggsdale, Dr. E. B. Gatten, Jr., J. Burnett Johnson, Dr. Darden W. 
Jones, Emerson Jones, G. Hinson Parker and W. Wilkinson.


[Dr. Jordan Beale POWELL, Sr., 2 Jul 1885, Hertford Co, NC - 2 Feb 1951, 
 interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery, Franklin, 4 Feb 1951, 
 "The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), obit dated 9 Feb 1951] 

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