Gerald (Jerry) Galvin, 55, former boxer and sports figure of Norfolk and Tidewater, who promoted weekly amateur fights at the Auditorium Arena from 1941 to 1946, died yesterday at 6:45 p.m. in a Norfolk hospital after an illness of three weeks.
He was employed as a supervisor at the Norfolk Naval Air Station, and made his home at 202 Sedgefield Drive, Greenhill Farms.
A native of Boston, Mass., and a resident of Norfolk for 14 years, he was a son of the late John and Mrs. Mary Sullivan Galvin.
Although boxing was his main love, he also played baseball. He refereed boxing events in the Tidewater area.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Hosie Spell Galvin; two daughters, Mrs. C. F. Duke and Mrs. Milburn E. Edwards, and two sons, Harry H. Bryan and William B. Bryan, all of Norfolk; one sister, Mrs. James Kiley of Boston; two brothers, Daniel P. Galvin and Timothy Galvin, both of Boston, and three grandchildren.
The body was removed to the Derry-Twiford Funeral Home.
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, page Nineteen, Saturday, December 13, 1952
Gerald Galvin. - Funeral services for Mr. Galvin who died Friday, will be conducted at the Derry-Twiford Funeral Home tomorrow at 11 a.m. by the Rev. Conrad C. Hoffner, pastor of Christ the King Catholic Church. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, Part 4 - Page 14, Sunday, December 14, 1952
Gerald (Jerry) Galvin - Funeral services for Mr. Galvin, who died Friday, were conducted in the chapel of the Derry0Twiford Funeral Home yesterday at 11 a.m. by the Rev. Conrad C. Hoffner, pastor of Christ the King Catholic Church. Pallbearers were C.R. Mills, Robert Searcy, Capt. E. Hough, George G. Carr, N. C. Queen and E. F. Bell. Burial was in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, page Twenty-six, Tuesday, December 16, 1952
Contributor Deborah
He was employed as a supervisor at the Norfolk Naval Air Station, and made his home at 202 Sedgefield Drive, Greenhill Farms.
A native of Boston, Mass., and a resident of Norfolk for 14 years, he was a son of the late John and Mrs. Mary Sullivan Galvin.
Although boxing was his main love, he also played baseball. He refereed boxing events in the Tidewater area.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Hosie Spell Galvin; two daughters, Mrs. C. F. Duke and Mrs. Milburn E. Edwards, and two sons, Harry H. Bryan and William B. Bryan, all of Norfolk; one sister, Mrs. James Kiley of Boston; two brothers, Daniel P. Galvin and Timothy Galvin, both of Boston, and three grandchildren.
The body was removed to the Derry-Twiford Funeral Home.
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, page Nineteen, Saturday, December 13, 1952
Gerald Galvin. - Funeral services for Mr. Galvin who died Friday, will be conducted at the Derry-Twiford Funeral Home tomorrow at 11 a.m. by the Rev. Conrad C. Hoffner, pastor of Christ the King Catholic Church. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, Part 4 - Page 14, Sunday, December 14, 1952
Gerald (Jerry) Galvin - Funeral services for Mr. Galvin, who died Friday, were conducted in the chapel of the Derry0Twiford Funeral Home yesterday at 11 a.m. by the Rev. Conrad C. Hoffner, pastor of Christ the King Catholic Church. Pallbearers were C.R. Mills, Robert Searcy, Capt. E. Hough, George G. Carr, N. C. Queen and E. F. Bell. Burial was in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, page Twenty-six, Tuesday, December 16, 1952
Contributor Deborah
Gerald (Jerry) Galvin, 55, former boxer and sports figure of Norfolk and Tidewater, who promoted weekly amateur fights at the Auditorium Arena from 1941 to 1946, died yesterday at 6:45 p.m. in a Norfolk hospital after an illness of three weeks.
He was employed as a supervisor at the Norfolk Naval Air Station, and made his home at 202 Sedgefield Drive, Greenhill Farms.
A native of Boston, Mass., and a resident of Norfolk for 14 years, he was a son of the late John and Mrs. Mary Sullivan Galvin.
Although boxing was his main love, he also played baseball. He refereed boxing events in the Tidewater area.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Hosie Spell Galvin; two daughters, Mrs. C. F. Duke and Mrs. Milburn E. Edwards, and two sons, Harry H. Bryan and William B. Bryan, all of Norfolk; one sister, Mrs. James Kiley of Boston; two brothers, Daniel P. Galvin and Timothy Galvin, both of Boston, and three grandchildren.
The body was removed to the Derry-Twiford Funeral Home.
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, page Nineteen, Saturday, December 13, 1952
Gerald Galvin. - Funeral services for Mr. Galvin who died Friday, will be conducted at the Derry-Twiford Funeral Home tomorrow at 11 a.m. by the Rev. Conrad C. Hoffner, pastor of Christ the King Catholic Church. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, Part 4 - Page 14, Sunday, December 14, 1952
Gerald (Jerry) Galvin - Funeral services for Mr. Galvin, who died Friday, were conducted in the chapel of the Derry0Twiford Funeral Home yesterday at 11 a.m. by the Rev. Conrad C. Hoffner, pastor of Christ the King Catholic Church. Pallbearers were C.R. Mills, Robert Searcy, Capt. E. Hough, George G. Carr, N. C. Queen and E. F. Bell. Burial was in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, page Twenty-six, Tuesday, December 16, 1952
Contributor Deborah
He was employed as a supervisor at the Norfolk Naval Air Station, and made his home at 202 Sedgefield Drive, Greenhill Farms.
A native of Boston, Mass., and a resident of Norfolk for 14 years, he was a son of the late John and Mrs. Mary Sullivan Galvin.
Although boxing was his main love, he also played baseball. He refereed boxing events in the Tidewater area.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Hosie Spell Galvin; two daughters, Mrs. C. F. Duke and Mrs. Milburn E. Edwards, and two sons, Harry H. Bryan and William B. Bryan, all of Norfolk; one sister, Mrs. James Kiley of Boston; two brothers, Daniel P. Galvin and Timothy Galvin, both of Boston, and three grandchildren.
The body was removed to the Derry-Twiford Funeral Home.
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, page Nineteen, Saturday, December 13, 1952
Gerald Galvin. - Funeral services for Mr. Galvin who died Friday, will be conducted at the Derry-Twiford Funeral Home tomorrow at 11 a.m. by the Rev. Conrad C. Hoffner, pastor of Christ the King Catholic Church. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, Part 4 - Page 14, Sunday, December 14, 1952
Gerald (Jerry) Galvin - Funeral services for Mr. Galvin, who died Friday, were conducted in the chapel of the Derry0Twiford Funeral Home yesterday at 11 a.m. by the Rev. Conrad C. Hoffner, pastor of Christ the King Catholic Church. Pallbearers were C.R. Mills, Robert Searcy, Capt. E. Hough, George G. Carr, N. C. Queen and E. F. Bell. Burial was in Forest Lawn Cemetery.
Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, page Twenty-six, Tuesday, December 16, 1952
Contributor Deborah
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