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                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, January 8, 1993                   TAG: 9301080354
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
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OBIT DIAMOND, MIER RUDOLPH, ("RUDY")

DIAMOND, Mier Rudolph, ("Rudy"), 79, of Wytheville, died Monday, January 4, 1993, in the Wythe County Community Hospital. He was born in Fallsburg, Kentucky, a son of the late John Proctor and Anna Yates Diamond. He was a retired manager of Logan Concrete Industries, Inc., Logan, W. Va. and was a U. S. Navy veteran. He was a member of St. Mary's Catholic Church and was preceded in death by his wife, Genevieve Shepheard Diamond. He is survived by two sisters, Virginia Marie Diamond, Willa Faye Diamond; one brother, Francis Elmer Diamond, all of Dayton, Ohio; special friends, Emma Jones, Giesla Eversole, both of Austinville, Va. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 11 a.m. at St. Mary's Catholic Church with Father Paul Gallagher officiating. Interment will follow in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the Barnett Funeral home from 7 to 8 p.m. Friday with a prayer service to be held at 8 p.m. Barnett Funeral Home in Wytheville is in charge of the arrangements.



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