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DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 7, 1990                   TAG: 9003071345
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: EVENING 
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OBIT HARTWELL, R.

SALEM - Ruth Frances Hartwell, age 82, of Salem, Va., and formerly of Pulaski, died Monday evening, March 5, 1990, in the Richfield Nursing Center, Salem. She was born in Bedford County on July 23, 1907, and was the daughter of the late Dr. James Hughes Hartwell and Mary Dickinson Hartwell Jordan. She was also preceded in death by a brother, Roswell Hughes Hartwell. Surviving are two close cousins, Mrs. Christine Huddleston, Vinton; Mr. E. T. (Buddy) Ferguson, Jr., Stewartsville. A graveside service will be held Thursday, March 8, at 10:00 a.m. from the Highland Memory Gardens, Dublin, with the Rev. Richard Bethune officiating. The family will receive friends after the service. Arrangements by Stevens Funeral Home, Pulaski.