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DATE: WEDNESDAY, June 15, 1994                    TAG: 9406150417 
SECTION: LOCAL                     PAGE: B2    EDITION: FINAL  
SOURCE: NORFOLK 
DATELINE: 940615                                 LENGTH: Short 

RUTH M. GAUDIA

{LEAD} Ruth Mary Gaudia, 69, of the 1000 block of Modoc Avenue, a homemaker, died June 13, 1994, in a local hospital.

Mrs. Gaudia was born in Washington, D.C., and was a Catholic.

{REST} Survivors include her husband, Leoncio A. Gaudia; one daughter, Mary Ann Brewer of Maryland; three sons, Charles L. Thorne, Frank B. Thorne and Steven A. Thorne, all of Maryland; two sisters, Frances Jane Mihos and Mary Ann Stone, both of Maryland; one brother, John H. Raffo of Maryland; six grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

A graveside service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday in Forest Lawn Cemetery by Father Lou Ruoff. The family will be at Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home, Tidewater Drive Chapel, from 7 to 9 p.m. today and Thursday. Memorial donations may be made to the American Diabetes Association.

{KEYWORDS} DEATH OBITUARY

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