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DATE: MONDAY, May 17, 1993                   TAG: 9305170159
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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OBIT BRYANT, ELMER LEE

BRYANT, Elmer Lee, 77, of Roanoke, died Friday, May 14, 1993. Elmer retired after 40 years of service to REA Express Agency, he held several positions at REA, spending most of his tenure as carpenter and cabinet maker. He was a member of the Basham Primitive Baptist Church. Surviving are his wife, Hazel Helms Bryant; a son, David Bryant, Washington D.C.; three daughters, Loretta McClure of Salem, Mo.; Marie Osterbuhr, Garden City, Kan., Betty Bryant, Roanoke; five grandchildren and one brother, Melvin Bryant, Roanoke. Services will be 3 p.m. Monday at Oakey's South Chapel, Elder Junior Conner and Elder Lane Carter will officiate. Interment will be at Sherwood Memorial Park. Friends may call at Oakey's South Chapel where the family will receive friends from 2 to 4 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday. In lieu of flowers, the family plans to create a living memorial in memory of Elmer and suggests memorials be sent to the Bryant family. 


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