
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 23, 1993                   TAG: 9306230246
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: ELK CREEK                                LENGTH: Short

OBIT VAUGHT, BELIESA BOURNE

VAUGHT, Beliesa Bourne, age 88, of Elk Creek, mother of fifteen children and widow of Minor Vaught, passed away Monday, June 21, 1993, at Twin County Community Hospital, Galax. She was preceded in death by three children, Charlene Dixon, Johnny Vaught and Doris Day. Surviving are six daughters; Allene Hash, Annie Carter, both of Elk Creek, Catherine Hagee, Galax, Lois Lyons, Fork, Md., Mattie Wingate, Crockett, Peggy Eckel, Fredricksburg; six sons, Robert Vaught, Bel Air, Md., Dan Vaught, Atkins, Ted Vaught, Independence, Lawrence Vaught, David Vaught, both of Elk Creek, Lester Vaught, Galax; two brothers, Raymond Bourne, Baltimore, Md. and Henry Bourne, Wytheville; twenty-seven grandchildren, three stepgrandchildren, thirty-six great-grandchildren, nine stepgreat-grandchildren and seventeen great-greatgrandchildren. Funeral service will be conducted Thursday, 2 p.m. in Jerusalem United Methodist Church, Rev. David Olinger and Rev. Fred Jennings officiating. Interment in the church cemetery. The body will remain at Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Home, Independence, and will be taken to the church thirty minutes preceding service to lie in state. The family will receive friends at the funeral home Wednesday night from 7 to 9. In liew of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions may be made to the Elk creek Rescue suad, P. O. Box 147, Elk Creek, Va. 24326. Reins-Sturdivant Funeral Home, Independence, Va. is in charge of arrangements.

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