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

DATE: FRIDAY, May 18, 1990                   TAG: 9005180367
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-11   EDITION: STATE 
SOURCE: 
DATELINE: SPRINGFIELD, MO.                                LENGTH: Short

WOMAN, 73, RELIEVED TO BE OFFICIALLY ALIVE

Rose Marie Posey is officially alive again after a computer error that declared her death was corrected. Now, she's ready for "The Tonight Show" and "Nightline."

The 73-year-old woman declared dead by U.S. Treasury Department and insurance company computers got word Wednesday that the errors had been fixed and her $871.13 monthly pension restored.

And the local media darling is ready to go national.

"I'm happy, believe me," she said. "I'll even get on an airplane if they ask me and go to talk to Ted Koppel or Johnny Carson - and I hate to get on airplanes." - Associated Press 


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