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- Miss Flora Belle Alexander, daughter of Representative Lewis Alexander of Owen County, and Mr. R.G. Vance, of Charleston, W.Va., will be married in the parlors of the Capital Hotel, at Frankfort, on Wednesday evening, February 8.
The Evening Bulletin, Maysville, Kentucky. Friday, 3 February 1893.
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- Robert Glass Vance, 73, vice-president, cashier and trust officer of the First National Bank and for many years prominently identified with the civic, business and religious life of Waynesboro community, died at 6:45 a.m. today at his home on Wayne Avenue following a heart attack.
Funeral services will be held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock at First Presbyterian Church with Dr. J. G. Patton, pastor, in charge. Burial will follow in River View Cemetery.
Mr. Vance, a past president of the Virginia Bankers Association and of the Virginia State Horticultural Society, was born April 2, 1868, in Middletown, Kentucky, the son of Robert Glass Vance and Fanny Stowe Vance. He attended Shelbyville private school and Shelby Academy. He was married at Frankfort, Kentucky, on February 8, 1893, to Miss Flora B. Alexander, of New Liberty, Kentucky.
Mrs. Vance survives as do three sons, Albert Rice Vance, of Washington,; Dr. Robert Glass Vance, of Boston; and Dr. Lewis Alexander Vance, of Boston; also two grandsons and two granddaughters.
He is survived as well by two brothers, Truman S. Vance, of Staunton, and Dr. James Vance, of El Paso, Texas; and by two sisters, Mrs. W. R. Snyder, of Lexington, Kentucky, and Mrs. A. L. Harbison, of New York City.
Mr. Vance's interests were numerous and varied. Upon completion of his education, he was engaged for a time as a civil engineer with the Southern Railroad and later was a member of the firm Venable and Vance, mining engineers, in Charleston, West Virginia.
He came to Waynesboro on August 23, 1899, and with the late Theodore Coiner established the South River Bank, a state bank, which in 1905 was reorganized as a national bank and renamed the First National Bank of Waynesboro. In this he was vice-president and cashier, positions he held at the time of his death. When the bank's trust department was organized, he took on the added duties of trust officer.
Banking was his major interest and in his field he was recognized as one of it leaders. In 1919-1920 he served as president of the Virginia Bankers Association and in later years aided the organization in various capacities in committee work or as a zone or group officer. One of his valued possessions was a silver bowl presented him by the bankers' association on June 17, 1920, at a Hot Springs convention.
As an orchardist and fruit grower, Mr. Vance also attained statewide prominence, serving one or more years as president of the Virginian State Horticultural Society. He was a director of the Virginia State Fair Association and booster of horticultural displays. He owned and operated extensive orchards, the Tuckahoe Orchard in Albermarle and the Vance orchards near Ladd. Production of quality fruit was his ever-present ambition and he was well informed on modern packing and marketing methods.
He was an active member of the Waynesboro Rotary Club; had served the Chamber of Commerce for many years both in offices of secretary and treasurer, and as a director; had served for several terms on Waynesboro Town Council; and in addition was ever willing and ready to serve his church, the First Presbyterian congregation of Waynesboro.
Immediately upon moving to this community he united his membership by certificate with the First Presbyterian Church then worshipping in the building now occupied by the Waynesboro News Virginian. In 1911 he drew the plans and was chairman of the building committee which supervised the erection of the present First Presbyterian Church on the corner of Wayne Avenue and 11th Street.
Two years ago when plans for the new Presbyterian "Youth Building" were made, Mr. Vance was again chairman of the church's building committee, a position he held at the time of his death.
He was for many years an elder in the church and was a teacher of the Sunday School's Baraca Class. On his bedside table this morning was his Sunday School lesson book, opened to Sunday's page and marked at the point to which his preparation to teach Sunday's lesson had proceeded.
His death today came as a distinct shock to his friends and associates. Yesterday he had been at work at the bank and last night attended the directors meeting until about 9 p.m. Shortly after 5 a.m. today he suffered a heart attack, a physician was called and shortly thereafter the end came.
Active pallbearers Sunday will include: R. H. Clemmer, Emmett W. Barger, William D. Shumate, Guy H. Branaman, R. V. Chew, Frank P. White, James W. Wright, J. S. Ellis, and Dr. A. M. McLaughlin.
Honorary pallbearers will be the Session and Board of Deacons of the First Presbyterian Church and the Board of Directors of the First National Bank.
Waynesboro News Virginian-date of paper: November 7, 1911 [1]
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