Oxford, Feb. 17—Dr. Franklin P. Hobgood, president of Oxford College, who died in a Richmond hospital last night, will be buried here tomorrow afternoon. Funeral services will be held at 3 o’clock in the Oxford College chapel, and will be conducted by Rev. J.D. Harte, pastor of Oxford Baptist church, assisted by Rev. J.F. Hardaway of Thomasville, who was pastor of the Baptist church here for 20 years.
Grandsons of the deceased will be active pallbearers and the board of deacons of the Baptist church, of which Dr. Hobgood was a member for many years, will act as honorary pallbearers.
The faculty and student body of Oxford College, of which Dr. Hobgood was president for more than 40 years, will act as escort for the remains, and will have charge of the music at the funeral.
From the front page of The Smithfield Herald, Feb. 19, 1924
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