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

DATE: TUESDAY, February 26, 1991                   TAG: 9102260487
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: EVENING 
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NATIONAL POOLS PRESIDENT DIES

Gordon W. Rudd, president of National Pools of Roanoke, died Monday. He was 69.

Rudd, a pioneer in the swimming pool industry, was a charter member, director and regional vice president of the National Pool and Spa Institute and a former president of the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern units of the organization. He was a past president of Northwest Revitalization Association in Roanoke. Rudd graduated from Purdue University and was a Navy veteran of World War II.

Surviving are his wife, Barbara Rudd, three sons, two daughters and six grandchildren.

The funeral will be Wednesday at 3 p.m. at First Presbyterian Church. Entombment will be in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens.

by CNB