Roanoke Times
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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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