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

DATE: TUESDAY, January 19, 1993                   TAG: 9301190302
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: KING GEORGE                                 LENGTH: Short

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OBIT RYAN, THELMA VIRGINIA HELMS

RYAN, Thelma Virginia Helms, 59, of King George, died Sunday, January 17, 1993 at Mary Washington Hospital. She was born in Blacksburg and was a retired electronics technician at the Naval Surface Warfare Center of Dahlgren. She was a member of the Alleghany Church of Christ in Christiansburg and a member of the Auxiliary #1629 of the Moose and American Legion Auxiliary Post #148 of Colonial Beach. She is survived by her husband, Eldridge (Sonny) Ryan; one son, Mark A. Ryan of Edgewood, Md.; her mother, Louise Helms of Blacksburg; one brother, Hobart Harless Helms of Christiansburg; three grandsons. Funeral services will be at Richardson-Horne Funeral Home in Christiansburg 1 p.m. Thursday, January 21, with interment in Sunset Cemetery in Christiansburg. Rev. Jerry Sloss will officiate. Visitation will be from 7 to 9 Wednesday evening at the funeral home.

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