Capt. Roger Elwood Williams, 51, veteran master of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway tug, George W. Stephens, died suddenly Sunday afternoon aboard the Danish motorship Gertrude, which he was preparing to dock at the C. & O. piers in Newport News.
Captain Williams had just boarded the Gertrude from his tug when he was stricken, and died before he could be removed from the vessel.
An employee of the marine department of the railway for 30 years, Captain Williams had been a pilot in the harbor service since 1912 and prior to that, was first mate and relief master on the passenger steamship Virginia. He was a member of the Masters, Mates and Pilots Association.
He was a native of Mathews county (Va.), and was the son of the late Roger Pryor and Margaret Hurst Williams.
Captain Williams is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ethel Taylor Williams; a daughter, Mrs. Paul Hogg, of Newport News; a son, Roger E. Williams, who is a student at the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, and a grandson, John Roger Hogg, of Newport News.
Funeral services were conducted at the Cox Funeral Home, on Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, with the Rev. Dr. Spark W. Melton, pastor of Freemason Street Baptist Church, officiating. Burial was in the family plot in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Gloucester-Mathews Gazette-Journal (Va.),
Thurs, 9 Nov 1939, p5, c3
Captain Williams had just boarded the Gertrude from his tug when he was stricken, and died before he could be removed from the vessel.
An employee of the marine department of the railway for 30 years, Captain Williams had been a pilot in the harbor service since 1912 and prior to that, was first mate and relief master on the passenger steamship Virginia. He was a member of the Masters, Mates and Pilots Association.
He was a native of Mathews county (Va.), and was the son of the late Roger Pryor and Margaret Hurst Williams.
Captain Williams is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ethel Taylor Williams; a daughter, Mrs. Paul Hogg, of Newport News; a son, Roger E. Williams, who is a student at the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, and a grandson, John Roger Hogg, of Newport News.
Funeral services were conducted at the Cox Funeral Home, on Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, with the Rev. Dr. Spark W. Melton, pastor of Freemason Street Baptist Church, officiating. Burial was in the family plot in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Gloucester-Mathews Gazette-Journal (Va.),
Thurs, 9 Nov 1939, p5, c3
Capt. Roger Elwood Williams, 51, veteran master of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway tug, George W. Stephens, died suddenly Sunday afternoon aboard the Danish motorship Gertrude, which he was preparing to dock at the C. & O. piers in Newport News.
Captain Williams had just boarded the Gertrude from his tug when he was stricken, and died before he could be removed from the vessel.
An employee of the marine department of the railway for 30 years, Captain Williams had been a pilot in the harbor service since 1912 and prior to that, was first mate and relief master on the passenger steamship Virginia. He was a member of the Masters, Mates and Pilots Association.
He was a native of Mathews county (Va.), and was the son of the late Roger Pryor and Margaret Hurst Williams.
Captain Williams is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ethel Taylor Williams; a daughter, Mrs. Paul Hogg, of Newport News; a son, Roger E. Williams, who is a student at the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, and a grandson, John Roger Hogg, of Newport News.
Funeral services were conducted at the Cox Funeral Home, on Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, with the Rev. Dr. Spark W. Melton, pastor of Freemason Street Baptist Church, officiating. Burial was in the family plot in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Gloucester-Mathews Gazette-Journal (Va.),
Thurs, 9 Nov 1939, p5, c3
Captain Williams had just boarded the Gertrude from his tug when he was stricken, and died before he could be removed from the vessel.
An employee of the marine department of the railway for 30 years, Captain Williams had been a pilot in the harbor service since 1912 and prior to that, was first mate and relief master on the passenger steamship Virginia. He was a member of the Masters, Mates and Pilots Association.
He was a native of Mathews county (Va.), and was the son of the late Roger Pryor and Margaret Hurst Williams.
Captain Williams is survived by his wife, Mrs. Ethel Taylor Williams; a daughter, Mrs. Paul Hogg, of Newport News; a son, Roger E. Williams, who is a student at the Baltimore College of Dental Surgery, and a grandson, John Roger Hogg, of Newport News.
Funeral services were conducted at the Cox Funeral Home, on Tuesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, with the Rev. Dr. Spark W. Melton, pastor of Freemason Street Baptist Church, officiating. Burial was in the family plot in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Gloucester-Mathews Gazette-Journal (Va.),
Thurs, 9 Nov 1939, p5, c3
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