
                         THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
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DATE: FRIDAY, June 17, 1994                    TAG: 9406170496 
SECTION: LOCAL                     PAGE: B2    EDITION: FINAL  
SOURCE: CHESAPEAKE 
DATELINE: 940617                                 LENGTH: Short

REV. RALPH HARRIS SR.

{LEAD} Rev. Ralph Harris Sr., 81, of the 600 block of Partridge Ave., died June 15, 1994, in Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.

He was born in Norfolk and was a minister of several Hampton Roads churches. He was a member of New Hope United Church of Christ, Norfolk. He was a retired accounting clerk from the Naval Air Rework Facility after 34 years and was a World War II veteran.

{REST} Survivors include his wife, Geneva S. Harris; three daughters, Wilhelmina Hart and Lila Harris, both of Norfolk, and Vera Stephens of Chesapeake; two sons, Ralph Harris Jr. of Bedford, Va. and Thaddeus Harris of Philadelphia; six grandchildren; two stepdaughters; and one stepson.

A funeral will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in St. Thomas AMEZ Church, Norfolk, by the Rev. G.L. Scott. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. A wake service will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. Saturday in the chapel. Family and friends will assemble at the residence at 12:30 p.m. Sunday. Hale Funeral Home is handling arrangements.

{KEYWORDS} DEATH OBITUARY

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