The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1937-02-18
CONDUCT FINAL SERVICES
FOR PLAYFORD A. NAYLOR
Son of Senator and Mrs. A. d.
NaylOr Laid To Rest In Oakland

Funeral services for Playford Alon-
20 NaylOr, 40 years old, Sebring, Fla,
attorney, and native of Oakland, were
conducted Sunday afternoon from St.
Paul's Methodist Episcopal church,
Oakland, with Rev. Winfield S. Pat
terson, pastor, officiating. The service
was largely attended.
Members of Oakland Lodge, No. 1872,
A, F. G. A. Masons, were in charge
of the final rites at the grave in Oak
land cemetery and members of the fra
ternity acted as guards Of honor prior
to the services.
The deaceased, a son of former State
Senator Alonzo D. Naylor and Mrs.
Naylor, died last Thursday morning,
February II, at Sebring, following an
appendicitis operation. His parents and
family were with him when he passed
away.
The body was brought to Oakland
Saturday night and on Sunday morn
ing was taken to the Naylor home
on Fourth street. The body lay in
state in the church for an hour before
the funeral service and was viewed
by many of the friends of the de-
ceased and the family. Pallbearers
were Harland L. Jones, Delbert Davis,
Cecil Smith, Walter w. Dawson, Ralph
T. Thayer and Donald r. Sincell.
Mr.. Naylor had been practicing law
in the Florida city for twelve years.
Previously he was connected in the
law practice in Oakland with Asa T.
Matthews. He was a graduate of Ohio
Wesleyan University and the Univer-
sity of Virginia law school.
Besides being a member of the local
Masonic lodge he belonged to the
Scottish Rite at Cumberland, the
Knights of Pythias lodge in Oakland,
the Lions Club and Chamber of Com
merce at Sebring and the Sebring
Methodist church. He was active in
municipal affairs and had served in
the City Council at Sebring and also
as City Attorney there.
Services were also held in the
Methodist church at Sebring on Friday
where hundreds of friends, business
and political associates turned out to
pay parting tribute to friend.
Dozens of messages of coincidence
and many floral tributes were received
there. Members of the Sebring Volun-
teer Fire Department and Lions Club,
of which he had been past president,
turned out en- masse to pay their last
respects. At the services a tribute
was paid to the deceased's life in the
church and community.
Besides his parents he is survived by
his widow and six-year-old daugh-
ter, Nancy Charlotte; two sisters, Mrs.
J. Maurice Wareham, of Mount Yer
non, Ohio, and Mrs. H. L. Bennett, of
Wheeling, w. Va; three brothers, S.
Townshend Naylor, Paul B. Naylor and
Arthur Naylor, of Oakland. Mrs. Nay
lor, his widow, who recently under
went a major surgical operation at
Sebring, was unable to come to Oak
land to attend the final rites. The body
was accompanied to Oakland by Mr..
and Mrs. Naylor. who were at Sc
bring where they planned to spend
the winter.
Those attending the services from
out of town included Mrs. James B.
Manor, Brunswick, Md; Miss Virginia
Beall, Waynesboro, Pa; DR.. and Mrs.
]. NJ. Wareham, Mt. Vernon, Ohio; Mr..
and Mrs. H. L. Bennett, Wheeling, w.
Va; George Crabbe, Baltimore; Judge
David Robb, Cumberland; NJ. yelling
ton Crane, Hagerstown; Mr.. and Mrs.
James R. Wolfe, Parsons, W. Va;
Mrs. Charles D. Smith, Miss Edith
Smith, Parsons, w. Va; Howard Nay
lor, Buckhannon, w. Va.