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DATE: SUNDAY, May 2, 1993                   TAG: 9305030181
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: D-2   EDITION: METRO 
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OBIT STARKE, ALICE SMITH

STARKE, Alice Smith, of Roanoke, died Wednesday, April 28, 1993. Mrs. Starke was the widow of H. Melville Starke Jr. of Richmond, Va. and later of Ormond Beach, Fla. Born in 1900, she was the daughter of Dr. Richard McAllister Smith (for many years a professor of Greek and Latin at Randolph Macon College, Ashland) and Minnie Banks Smith. They later lived in Montgomery and Birmingham, Ala. Surviving are one daughter, Mrs. Elizabeth Starke Garthwaite, London, England; three grandchildren, Douglas M. Brown, Bethesda, Md., Mrs. Elizabeth Dade Bridgeman-Williams, London, England, Nigel Greig, Pound Ridge, N.Y.; one sister, Mrs. Marion S. Looney, Roanoke; one niece, Mrs. Claiborne Foster, Greenville, S.C.; two nephews, Dr. Edmund Lowney, Columbus, Ohio, John L. Smith, California. Funeral services will be conducted 1:30 p.m. Monday, May 3, 1993, at Oakey's Roanoke Chapel, by Dr. John W. Newman. A graveside service will be conducted 1 p.m. Tuesday, May 4, 1993, in Westview Cemetery, Farmville, Va. Arrangements by Oakey's Roanoke. 


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