
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, August 1, 1993                   TAG: 9307300297
SECTION: EXTRA                    PAGE: 6   EDITION: METRO 
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LINKOUS-BLAKE

Kristi Ellen Linkous and Steven Eugene Blake II are engaged and planning to be married September 25, 1993, at the Main Street Baptist Church, Christiansburg, Va.

She is is the daughter of Barbara Sarver Linkous and the late Delma D. Linkous and the granddaughter of Virginia L. Sarver. She graduated from Christiansburg High School in 1987 and from Radford University in 1992. Ms. Linkous is employed by Northwest Georgia Regional Hospital in Rome, Georgia, as a Registered Board Certified Music Therapist.

Blake is the son of Diana L. Snyder of Kincaid, W. Va., and of Steven E. Blake, Sr., of Salem, Va. He is the grandson of Lorine Blake of Hughston, W. Va. He graduated from Christiansburg High School in 1987 and is employed by WPSK radio in Pulaski, Va.

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