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DATE: TUESDAY, June 22, 1993                   TAG: 9306220325
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: DUBLIN                                LENGTH: Short


OBIT WHITAKER, JAMES RICHARD SR.

WHITAKER, James Richard Sr., 52, of Dublin, died Monday, June 21, 1993, at Radford Community Hospital. He was a retired employee of Hercules in Radford with 23 years of service. He was a member of Dublin United Methodist Church. He was also a member of Pulaski County High School Touch-Down Club. Surviving are his wife, Roselma Howard Whitaker of Dublin; one daughter, Marjorie E. Whitaker of Dublin; two sons, James Richard Jr. and William M. Whitaker, both of Dublin; parents, Joseph B. and Helen McBrayer Whitaker, both of Cedar Bluff, Va.; one sister and brother-in-law, Frances and Branche McGlothin of Cedar Bluff, Va.; one brother and sister-in-law, Joseph and Hilda Whitaker of Savannah, Georgia. The funeral service will be 11 a.m. Wednesday from the Dublin United Methodist Church with the Rev. Richard Patterson officiating. Interment will follow in Highland Memory Gardens, Dublin. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. at the DeVilbiss Funeral Home in Radford.



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