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DATE: SUNDAY, September 19, 1993                   TAG: 9309200206
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: PENHOOK                                 LENGTH: Short


OBIT POTTER, AIRY RADFORD

POTTER, Airy Radford (`Ralph`), 83, of Route 2, Penhook, died Saturday, September 18, 1993, in the local hospital. He was a son of the late Lewis Jackson and Nannie Kirk Potter and was preceded in death by a brother, Cliff Potter. Mr. Potter was a member of Old Chapel Primitive Baptist Church. Surviving are his wife, Hester Bousman Potter of the home; one daughter and son-in-law, Betty and Ronald Matherly of Penhook; four sons and three daughters-in-law, Kenneth W. Potter of Concord, N.C., Dennis and Peggy Potter of Glade Hill, Joe and Peggy Potter of Martinsville and Calbert and Gale Potter of Rocky Mount; 11 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; two sisters, Clara Jones of Martinsville and Ruby Reynolds of Rocky Mount; four brothers, Willard Potter of Martinsville, Ben Potter of Roanoke, Gene Potter and Hoover Potter, both of Rocky Mount; several nieces and nephews. Funeral services will be conducted Monday at 2 p.m. in Flora Funeral Chapel with Elder Raymond Goad and Elder Thomas Solomon officiating. Interment will follow in the Potter Family Cemetery. Those desiring to may make memorials to the Snow Creek Rescue Squad. The family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at Flora Funeral Service, 342 South Main Street, Rocky Mount.



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