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DATE: SUNDAY, December 12, 1993                   TAG: 9312130356
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: LYNCHBURG                                 LENGTH: Short


OBIT GOBER, SADIE JOHNSTON

GOBER, Sadie Johnston, 90, a long time resident of Lynchburg, died Saturday, December 11, 1993, in a High Point, N.C. nursing home. She was the widow of Powell Clifton Gober. Born in Rome, Ga., she was a daughter of the late Edward Edmund Johnston and Mary Elizabeth Carver Johnston. Mrs. Gober was a charter member of Chestnut Hill Baptist Church of Lynchburg. She is survived by a son, Robert Clifton Gober of Greensboro, N.C.; a daughter, Nancy Ruth Gober Kempf of Vinton; five grandchildren; two great-grandchildren. A graveside service will be conducted Monday at 1 p.m. in Fort Hill Memorial Park by the Rev. John R. Kempf. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. today at Whitten Timberlake Chapel located at 7404 Timberlake Road, Lynchburg.



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