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DATE: SATURDAY, September 11, 1993                   TAG: 9309130309
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: PEARISBURG                                LENGTH: Short

OBIT RATCLIFFE, BRIAN KEITH

RATCLIFFE, Brian Keith, 28, of Pearisburg, died Thursday evening September 9, 1993, in a mining accident in Giles County. Born in Giles County on June 7, 1965, he was a son of Oakley Ratcliffe of Pearisburg, and the late Janice Thorne Ratcliffe. He was an employee of A. P. Green Lime Company, Kimballton Plant. He was a member of the Giles County Life Saving and Rescue Squad and Pearisburg Volunteer Fire Department. Other survivors include his wife, Sharon Williams Ratcliffe; one daughter, Brittany Noel Ratcliffe, of the home; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Timothy and Reba J. Ratcliffe, Gregg and Kathy W. Ratcliffe, all of Pearisburg; one sister, Marilyn R. Echols and brother-in-law, Lloyd of Newport; maternal grandmother, Mrs. Ethel Thorne, Narrows; three nephews, Michael, Jason, and Jacob; one niece, Miranda; a special friend, Dal Woodyard. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 4 p.m. in the New River Stake Center of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, Pembroke, with Bishop Ted Johnson presiding. Burial will be in Birchlawn Burial Park, Pearisburg. The family will receive friends at the Kendall Funeral Home, Pembroke, from 6 to 9 p.m. Saturday. 


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