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DATE: MONDAY, October 11, 1993                   TAG: 9310110206
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: BEDFORD                                 LENGTH: Short

OBIT POINDEXTER, ERNESTINE DEFIBAUGH

POINDEXTER, Ernestine Defibaugh, 66, of Bedford, passed away Saturday, October 9, 1993 in the Bedford County Memorial Hospital. She was born May 12, 1927 in Marfrance, W. Va., a daughter of the late Alva J. Defibaugh and Florice Orange Defibaugh. Her husband was the late Thomas Judson Poindexter. She was a retired employee of Belding-Corticelli and was a member of the Mt. Hermon Baptist Church. She is survived by a son, Thomas Henry Franklin Jr., Salem; two grandsons, Thomas Henry Franklin III, Jerry Lynn Franklin, both of Roanoke; a granddaughter, Christy Sue Franklin, Salem; a great-grandson, Anthony Thomas Franklin, Roanoke; two sisters, Opal Hale, Roanoke; Lorain McFall, Bedford. Funeral services will be conducted Tuesday, October 12, 1993 at 11 a.m. from the Updike Funeral Chapel, by the Rev. Kenneth B. Bryan and Father Alfred T. Whitelock. Interment will follow in the Virginia Memorial Park. The family will receive friends Monday from 7 to 9 p.m. at Updike Funeral Home. 


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