Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, May 6, 1993 TAG: 9305060449
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C-2 EDITION: METRO
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DATELINE: BLACKSBURG LENGTH: Short
OBIT GROGAN, ESTHER FAIR
GROGAN, Esther Fair, 86, of Blacksburg, died Tuesday evening May 4, 1993,
in a Blacksburg hospital. Born in Tazewell County, Va., August 6, 1906, she
was a daughter of the late Rev. George Washington Harless and Mrs. Alice Fair
Harless. She was preceded in death by her husband, John S. Grogan Sr. She was
a public school teacher for many years in Giles and McDowell Counties, and
lived for many years at Kimball, W.Va., where she was Past Worthy Matron of
the Kimball Eastern Star Lodge. Surviving are two sons, Richard G. Grogan,
Bluefield, W.Va., John S. Grogran Jr., Fort Wayne, Ind.; one daughter, Jeanne
G. Batten, Williamston, N.C.; seven grandchildren. Funeral services will be
conducted Friday at 11 a.m. in the Pembroke Christian Church, Pembroke, Va.
Entombment will be in Woodlawn Cemetery Mausoleum at Bluewell, W.Va. The
family will receive friends Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Kendall Funeral
Home in Pembroke.
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