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DATE: SUNDAY, December 5, 1993                   TAG: 9312060356
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-4   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: HARRISONBURG                                LENGTH: Medium

OBIT SHERMAN, JOHN W.

SHERMAN, John W., 91, of Harrisonburg, formerly of Pearisburg died Friday, December 3, 1993, at Sunnyside Presbyterian Retirement Community Center, Harrisonburg, Va. Born at Burketown, Va. on July 15, 1902, Mr. Sherman was one of 10 children of Charles T. Sherman and Nettie Gray Cropp Sherman. He attended Randolph Macon Academy and graduated from Hampden-Sydney College. He earned his ministerial degree from Union Theological Seminary in 1931. Mr. Sherman was chaplain at the Masonic Home, Richmond. He was pastor of the Melrose Presbyterian Church, Roanoke before becoming pastor of the Pearisburg Presbyterian Church in September 1945. During his pastorate, a new manse was built in 1947 and a new church building was completed in 1956. Mr. Sherman also held regular services at Hoges Chapel Presbyterian Church, Walker's Creek Presbyterian Church and Shady Grove Methodist Church. After retiring in August 1967, Mr. Sherman was interim pastor for Roanoke Valley Presbyterian Church near Blacksburg, Va. He and his wife, Laura C. Sherman who predeceased him, became residents of Sunnyside in 1981 where Rev. Sherman ministered to patients in that facility's Health Care Unit. Mr. Sherman was a Mason for more than 50 years. He had been a member of the Pearisburg Kawanis Club and the Giles County Ministerial Assoication. He is survived by two sons, John W. Sherman III of Annandale, Va., Anthony C. Sherman of Southington, Ct.; one sister, Helen Sherman Wilson of Sunnyside Presbyterian Retirement Community; one brother, Theodore R. Sherman of Westminister, Md.; four grandchildren; two great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Monday, December 6, 1993, at 2:30 p.m. in the Pearisburg Presbyterian Church, with the Rev. Alan Harvey officiating with entombment in Birchlawn Abby. The family will receive friends at the Givens Funeral Home, Pearisburg Sunday from 6 to 8 p.m. Memorials may be made to the Sunnyside Presbyterian Retirement Community, Box 928, Harrisonburg, Va. 22801 or to donor's favorite charity. 


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