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DATE: MONDAY, March 9, 1992                   TAG: 9203090026
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
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OBIT LOVERN, W.

LOVERN, WOODROW G. Mr. Woodrow Garland Lovern, age 79 of Roanoke, died Saturday, March 7, 1992. Mr. Lovern retired from the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1976. He was preceded in death by his father, Grover P. Lovern, his mother, Macy Lovern and a brother, William (Bill) Lovern. He is survived by his wife, Virginia Iddings Lovern; three sons and daughters-in-law, Kenneth Lovern, Roanoke; David W. and Sandra Lovern, Vinton; Robert P. and Iris Lovern, Stewartsville; four daughters and sons-in-law, Rebecca E. and Henry Cooper, Roanoke; Betty L. and Jerry Fink, Roanoke; Shirley A. and Darryl Taylor, Roanoke; Bonnie M. Lovern, Lynchburg; seventeen grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; three sisters, Addie Hunt, Salem; Irene Meadows, Roanoke; Frances Wilmer, Roanoke; four brothers, Lewis Lovern, Roanoke; Lawrence Lovern, Moneta; Ralph Lovern, Montvale; James Lovern, Roanoke and a number of nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be conducted from Oakey's Vinton Chapel at 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, March 10, 1992 with the Rev. Gene M. Hagenberger Jr. officiating. Burial will be in Mountain View Cemetery. Friends may call at Oakey's Vinton Chapel where the family will receive friends from 2:00 to 4:00 and 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. Monday. 


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