The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1933-03-06
RETIRED FROM
ACTIVE LIFE
: YEARS AGO
rOneer Druggist in 18th
Year, Was iii for
Several Weeks
FUNERAL TUESDAY AT
3P. M. FROM CHURCH

Dr. William Hicks Justus, pioneer
Jacksonville druggist and the
dean of business men of this city
AZ me time of his retirement from
alive life about two years ago
lied at the family home on Flem-
no street this morning at eight
clock Death followed a decline
AVER a period of months from
ysich he recovered sufficiently
A9m time 70 time to be able to
Y:urn to his place of business,
Iustus drug store.
He had been confined to his
home for several weeks recently,
and passed away at the home this
morning. in his 18th year.
Funeral services will be held
from the Methodist church, of
which Dr. Justus became a MEM
Der wears ago, at 8 o'clock Tues
dav afternoon, the Rev. Claude
Noser officiating. Interment
will follow in Oakdale cemetery.
The following active pail bear
rs will serve: Judge Michael
Nsenck, L. E. Hesterly, Wiltshire
gsith c. L. Grey. A. Flicker,
Al. Hawkins. Frank Edwards,
r;W. A. Keith. -,
me honorary pail bearers will
has follows: w. D. Allen, James
RuEn, Sr--W. R Kirk, 4 W.
n7ne, ]. S. Brown. Jr., f. z.
hIett, B. F. Cliff. H. V. Station,
LR. Station, w. Z. Bracket, J.
: Wellington. r. c. Sample,
CIR E. Dixon. J. L. Egerton, A.
BDrafts, E. NJ. Salley, S. E.
Grenwood, ]. H. Woodcock, A.
ENorey w. B. W. Howe, F. A.
EEbank. H. H. Ewbank. E. W.
EEbank. John Ewbank, John Nc
l,yre. J. F. Brooks. ]. r. Sewer,
IL. Durham, NJ. c. King, r. H.
S,a.on, ]. E. Shipman, Patton Ar
ktge W. B. Wilson, George Va!-
ertine. Brownlow Jackson. A. V,
Etwards, Otis Powers, Raymond
Edwards w. A. Garren, 7. L. OS-
borne Ed. Barnett. James T. Sta
ton, ]. P. Fletcher, Will Cannon,
HI. Hodges, L. r. Geiger, NJ. D.
Coburn Lee Whitmire. james
Valdrop. Frank Waldrop, f. L
Feagin. 7. w. Valentine and II
Z. Ba0st.
Or Justus was a pharmacy
ysduate of Vanderbilt UNIVERSITY
II the class of 1886. He was mar
ned january 1. 1889. to Mis-;
Mamie Tanner. The widow ant
t7e children survive: Grady Jus
Us Mrs. Irma Allen, Mrs. Ear
Penny, Mrs. NJ. o. Dantzler o.
0rangeburg, S. c., and Fred Jus
rs.
No one now in business in Hen
ieSonville was here on Januar!
!. 1892 when William Hicks Jus
tgs and the late DR.. Columbus
Few opened a drug store IN tn'
bgSding at 218-22O North MAR
street - one of the four oldes'
business buildings in Henderson
vile.
At he age of "A, with nj
health impaired, DR.. Justus re
tired from active business in Ia
Yor Of his son, Fred Justus, 6u
until recently he was seen dali!
about the store. giving the advan
tage Of his ripened judgment II
rs management. His chief pleas
ure. however. was in association
With his family, and in recalling
events of the long ago when Hen
lersonyille was little more than
GoSS-roads town. -,
Dr. Justus was born IN tn
northeas- part of town, just ives
u Mud Creek in the approximate
NcatlOn of where a colored cnurc:
nov stands. He was son OF MI
and Mrs. NJ. T. Justus. real pho
eeers of this section. There wer'
l2lr other children: Lee Justus
sao died in 1888; Mrs. c. re"
q Hendersonville, the widow o
former prominent physical
crere; Mrs. J. p. Hickman, o
sS'eenyille, S. c., and Mrs. Samue
billiard, of Asheville.
In 1857. when w. H. JuStus wa
young man. his father bough
We half block at the present slt'
VI the Skyland hotel. and TIL
ground was owned by DR.. Justu
the time it was sold to tn
Tners Of the Skyland.
When DR.. Justus opened nj
u.s. store in the present Shephert
sSOre building. there were onl,
To other business buildings II
que Vicinity of the present court
muse One was a rock buildinj
Tue southwest corner of Mai
erect and First avenue, and tn
y sr was directly across tn
,sSget east. Both buildings ar
WI WI standing, the former bein
H SsSnt and the other occupied b
axe. aSes grocery store. DR.. Justu
sssSlled that the present Drak
'''re building had been oecupie
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