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

DATE: TUESDAY, March 16, 1993                   TAG: 9303160325
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: BLUEFIELD                                LENGTH: Short

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OBIT KIDD, OTIS HARMON

KIDD, Otis Harmon, 74, of Rt. 2, Bluefield, Va., died Sunday March 14, 1993 in a Bluefield hospital. He was born in Bland County, Va., son of the late, Houston H. and Ollie Yost Kidd. He was a former employee of the Virginia Hardwood Lumber Company, Corte Construction Company and retired in 1981 as a foreman for Consolidated Coal Company. He was a member of the United Mine Workers, served in the US Army in World War II and is a member of the Highland Avenue Church of God, Bluefield, Va. Preceded in death by two sisters and four brothers. Survivors are his wife, Dorothy Stacy Kidd; son, Garland J. Kidd of Fincastle, Va.; daughter, Geroline (Gerrie) Porter of Bluefield, Va.; four brothers, Thurman Kidd of Bastian, Va., Houston Kidd of Orlando, Fla., Heman Kidd of Baltimore, Md., Ralph Kidd of Nashville, Tenn.; sister, Linnie Looney of Bastian, Va.; four grandchildren, Mark Tracy Porter of Pewaukee, Wis., C. Brian Kidd of Roanoke, Tonya Porter Davis of Beckley, W.Va., Craig Kidd of Blacksburg; two great-grandsons, Christopher Kidd and Nicholas Kidd, both of Roanoke. Funeral services will be held Wednesday at 2 p.m. at the Highland Avenue Church of God in Bluefield, Va. with Dr. K. B. Arnold and the Rev. Allen Roberson officiating. Burial will follow in the Grandview Memory Gardens in Bluefield, Va. Friends may call at the Dudley Memorial Mortuary Tuesday from 5 to 8 p.m.

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