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DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 12, 1994                   TAG: 9401120287
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: UNION HALL                                LENGTH: Short


OBIT BATTEN, LOUISE G. BALLARD

BATTEN, Louise G. Ballard, 82, of Union Hall, formerly of Salem, passed away Monday, January 10, 1994 in Lewis Gale Hospital. Mrs. Batten was the wife of the late Earl W. Batten, Chief Engineer for the Blue Ridge Parkway. She was a retired registered nurse at the Veterans Administration Medical Center and was a member of Providence Holiness Church, Union Hall. She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Phyllis B. and George ("Buck") Wood, Jr.; one grandson and granddaughter-in-law, Tracy B. and Barbara Wray Wood; one granddaughter and grand son-in-law, Leigh Hurd Laury and Dennis E. Laury; two great-grandsons, Chris Hurd and Cody Wood; three sisters, Helen Cropp, Celeste Greaver and Inez Smith; sisters-in-law and brothers-in-law, Frances Farrar, Margaret and Gene Wager, Louise H. Batten, Nancy Lee and Fred Reynolds. Funeral services will be conducted at 10 a.m., Thursday at Flora Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Charles Swicegood officiating. Graveside services will be conducted at 2 p.m. at Monticello Memory Gardens, Charlottesville, Va. In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials be made to Providence Holiness Church, Union Hall, Va. 24176. Friends may call after Noon Wednesday with the family receiving friends from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Flora Funeral Service, 342 S. Main Street, Rocky Mount, Va.



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