THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1997, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, January 12, 1997 TAG: 9701120007
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B7 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: SUFFOLK LENGTH: 24 lines
James Randolph Pond Sr., 69, of 1333 River Road died Jan. 11, 1997.
A native of Suffolk, he was the son of the late Charles B. and Clara Outland Pond. Mr. Pond was the president of Producer Peanut Co. Inc. He was a member of West End Baptist Church, the Peanut and Treenut Processor Association, the Great Bridge Power Squadron and the Nansemond Power Squadron.
Survivors include his daughter, Catherine P. Lawson and husband, George, of Midlothian, Va.; son, James R. Pond Jr. and his wife, Kathy, of Chesapeake; brother, Richard L. Pond Sr. of Suffolk; three grandchildren, George H. Lawson III, Edwin K. Lawson and Jennie K. Pond; and a devoted friend, Mary Ellen Gomer.
A funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday in West End Baptist Church by the Rev. T. Floyd Irby and Dr. Donald J. Dunlap. Interment will be private. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Monday in the R.W. Baker & Co. Funeral Home and at other times at the residence. Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, 902 Pennsylvania Ave., Suffolk, Va. 23434.
KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY