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C. Alton Lindsay

C. Alton Lindsay
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HAMPTON — C. Alton Lindsay, 98, died October 31, 2002, at his home. Mr. Lindsay was born June 3, 1904, at Belroi, in Gloucester County. He graduated from Botetourt High School in Gloucester County in 1921. He received his B.A. degree from the College of William and Mary and his MEd from the University of Virginia.

In 1924, he became principal and teacher of the Warsaw High School. In 1927, he came to Hampton as principal of Armstrong School. He remained in that position until 1942, when he became superintendent of schools for Elizabeth City County, Hampton and Phoebus later consolidated into Hampton City Schools. He was honored on July 1 of this year by the City of Hampton for the part he played in its consolidation. Upon his retirement in 1968, he became secretary of the Hampton electoral board, from which he retired in 1994.

Mr. Lindsay was a member of First United Methodist Church, which he had served as chairman of the Administrative Board and teacher of a Sunday School class named in his honor. He also served the church on the Virginia Conference level, as chairman of the Resolutions committee and member of the Commission on Higher Education.

Among his other memberships were founding member and past president and treasurer of the Hampton Retired Teachers Association, past president of the Virginia Retired Teachers Association, charter member and immediate past president of the Hampton Host Lions Club, and member of the Coin Club.

Survivors include his wife of 75 years, Mary Kube Lindsay; daughter, Julia Lindsay Arndt, and husband, Fred, of Lexington, Va.; son, Christopher Alton Lindsay Jr., and wife, Lynn, of Greenfield Center, N.Y.; grandchildren, F. Lindsay Arndt and wife, Gretchen, and Christy Hearne and husband, David, all of York County, Karl Arndt of Palm Bay, Fla., Erika Burkholder and husband, Michael of Hampton, J. Bradford Lindsay of Marshfield, Mass., and Kevin Lindsay and Kory Lindsay of Greenfield Center, N.Y.; and five great-grandchildren, Lonnie, Austin and Spencer Hearne, Trevor Arndt and Mikaela Burkholder. He was preceded in death by a brother, Robert Hilton Lindsay Sr., and a sister, Helen Lindsay Holben.

The family will receive friends 3 to 5 p.m. Sunday at R. Hayden Smith Funeral Home Downtown Hampton. A Service of Death and Resurrection will be conducted at 4 p.m. Monday, November 4, 2002, at First United Methodist Church Downtown Hampton by the Rev. L. Stanley Wright Jr. and the Rev. William R. Kyle Jr.

The family requests that memorial donations be sent to the Hampton Lions Club for the Scholarship Fund, c/o Bryan Landrum, Treasurer, Hampton Host Lions, P.O. Box 7220, Hampton, VA 23666.

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