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DATE: SATURDAY, February 12, 1994                   TAG: 9402140183
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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OBIT--LINKOUS, CHARLISE CRUMPACKER LESTER

LINKOUS, Charlise Crumpacker Lester, 94, of Christiansburg, died Thursday, February 10, 1994, at Montgomery Regional Hospital. Mrs. Lester was the daughter of Charles A. and Sarah Ella Boyerly Crumpacker and was born at the Crumpacker Farm near Blacksburg on September 11, 1899. She attended Hollins College. She was married to Dr. James B. Lester of Christiansburg and Richmond, and after his death to James L. Linkous of Belmont. In Richmond, she was active in numerous civic and church organizations including the King's Daughters and Ginter Park Garden Club. She is survived by four stepsons; and numerous nieces and nephews. Mrs. Lester was the owner of the Historic Yellow Sulphur Springs Resort in Montgomery County, where she lived in, rented cottages to several generations of students and families for 50 years. Weather permitting services will be 1 p.m. Saturday at the Richardson-Horne Funeral Chapel conducted by the Rev. Robert E. Crawford with interment in Westview Cemetery, Blacksburg. The family will receive friends from noon until 1 p.m. Saturday at the Richardson-Horne Funeral Home. 


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