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DATE: TUESDAY, June 1, 1993                   TAG: 9306010155
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: MONETA                                LENGTH: Short


OBIT-MATTOX, ANNIE NESTER

MATTOX, Annie Nester, 92, of Route 2, Moneta, died Sunday, May 30, 1993 in the Bedford County Memorial Hospital. She was born in Wythe County on February 28, 1901, a daughter of the late George Albert Nester and Minnie Bell Jones Nester. She was a member of Flint Hill Baptist Church and was the wife of Robert P. Mattox Sr. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Mable M. Bowden. In addition to her husband, she is survived by eight children and their spouses, Anne M. and Charles Latimer, Bedford, Catherine M. and Bill Pierce, Ruckersville, Barbara M. and Clarence Catron, Bedford, Robert P. and Darlene Mattox Jr., Huntington Beach, Calif., Mary M. and Bill Blankenship, Vinton, Henry D. and Jeanette Mattox, Jeffersonville, Ind., Joyce M. and Joe Marr, Richmond, James A. and Nancy Mattox, Christiansburg; a brother and a sister, Arthur D. Nester, Roanoke and Rosalee N. Nance, Ridgeway; also 33 grandchildren; 49 great-grandchildren; one great-great-grandchild; a special friend, Arthur Gebhard; son-in-law, Rodney Bowden. Funeral services will be conducted on Wednesday, June 2, 1993 at 11 a.m. at Flint Hill Baptist Church with the Revs. Michael Winters and John C. Mitchell Jr. officiating. Burial will follow in Virginia Memorial Park. The family will receive friends at the Carder-Tharp Funeral Home, Bedford on Monday and Tuesday from 7 to 9 p.m. and at other times at the residence in Moneta.



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