Roanoke Times
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DATE: TUESDAY, July 17, 1990                   TAG: 9007160288
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH                                 LENGTH: Short

OBIT-PICKETT, E.

\ VIRGINIA BEACH - Earnest Claude Pickett, Jr., age 54, a conductor for Norfolk Southern Railroad Co., died July 14, 1990 in a Norfolk, Va. hospital. Mr. Pickett died from injuries he received when a Norfolk Southern train he was working on collided with a gas truck June 29 at a gasoline bulk plant in Chesapeake, Va. He is a native Smyth County, Va. and was employed with the railroad for 37 years. He was a member of Carmi Baptist Church in Sugar Grove, Va. He was also a member of the United Transportation Union. Survivors include his wife, Ann M. Pickett; his mother, Leona Mae Hawke Pickett, Sugar Grove; two sisters, Ruth McMahan, Marion; Brenda Myers, Daleville; four brothers, Paul Pickett, Independence; Dean Pickett, Sugar Grove; Rev. James Pickett, Hot Springs; Dan Pickett, Huntersville, N.C. The funeral will be conducted Tuesday, July 17 at 10:00 a.m. at Kellum Funeral Home, Virginia Beach by the Rev. Willard Reedy. Burial will be in Rosewood Memorial Park.