| John Benton Webb Jr. |
John Benton Webb Jr., photoengraver
Published: July 2
John Benton Webb Jr., who served as president and chairman of a
photoengraving company his father had founded in 1935, died June 20 at
Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville of injuries sustained in a fall.
He was 86.
Mr. Webb began working in the late 1940s for his father’s company,
which became known as Southern and Lanman Engraving Co. The younger
Webb ran the business until selling his interest in 1978.
John Benton Webb Jr. was a native Washingtonian and a 1942 graduate
of Woodrow Wilson High School.
He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before
serving the Navy in the Pacific during World War II.
In retirement, he moved from Bethesda to Queenstown, on Maryland’s
Eastern Shore. His memberships included All Saints Episcopal Church in
Chevy Chase, the Optimist Club and Congressional Country Club in
Bethesda.
His wife of 63 years, Annie Mary Webb, died in 2010. Their daughter
Nancy Webb Smith died in 1969.
Survivors include three daughters, Virginia Styer of Olney, Polly Rogers
of Harrisonburg, Va., and Lucy Neuenschwander of Kenosha, Wis.; seven
grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
— Emma Brown
Published: July 2
John Benton Webb Jr., who served as president and chairman of a
photoengraving company his father had founded in 1935, died June 20 at
Shady Grove Adventist Hospital in Rockville of injuries sustained in a fall.
He was 86.
Mr. Webb began working in the late 1940s for his father’s company,
which became known as Southern and Lanman Engraving Co. The younger
Webb ran the business until selling his interest in 1978.
John Benton Webb Jr. was a native Washingtonian and a 1942 graduate
of Woodrow Wilson High School.
He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill before
serving the Navy in the Pacific during World War II.
In retirement, he moved from Bethesda to Queenstown, on Maryland’s
Eastern Shore. His memberships included All Saints Episcopal Church in
Chevy Chase, the Optimist Club and Congressional Country Club in
Bethesda.
His wife of 63 years, Annie Mary Webb, died in 2010. Their daughter
Nancy Webb Smith died in 1969.
Survivors include three daughters, Virginia Styer of Olney, Polly Rogers
of Harrisonburg, Va., and Lucy Neuenschwander of Kenosha, Wis.; seven
grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
— Emma Brown
