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

DATE: SUNDAY, January 3, 1993                   TAG: 9301040105
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: SMITH MOUNTAIN LAKE                                 LENGTH: Short

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KIHM, EDWARD PHILLIP

KIHM, Edward Phillip, 81, of Smith Mountain Lake, died suddenly Thursday, December 31, 1992. He was born in Pennsylvania on November 19, 1911, a son of the late Louis and Gertrude Sorg Kihm. He was retired from Midland Steel in Cleveland, Ohio, and was a communicant of Resurrection Catholic Church in Moneta. Mr. Kihm was the husband of the late Marian Christyson Kihm. Survivors include two sons, Thomas E. Kihm, Troutville, Edward J. Kihm, Greensboro, N. C.; four daughters, Mary Louise Barker, San Francisco, Calif., Kathleen G. Esson, Erie, Pa., Joan M. Kihm, Moneta, Eileen K. Montoni, Roanoke; two sisters, Gertrude Fritz, East Lake, Ohio, Marian Erdman, Cleveland, Ohio; one brother, Leo Kihm, San Diego, Calif.; also eleven grandchildren and one great-grandchild. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Tuesday, January 5, 1993, at 10 a.m. at Resurrection Catholic Church with the Rev. James J. Begley officiating. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends from 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 Monday evening at the Resurrection Catholic Church. Arrangements by Carder-Tharp Funeral Home, Bedford. The family suggests that flowers be omitted.

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