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                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Friday, January 20, 1995               TAG: 9501200470
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: NEWPORT NEWS                       LENGTH: Short :   25 lines

DELMA Y. BRILEY

Delma Y. Briley, 78, died Wednesday, Jan. 18, 1995.

He was a native of Pitt County, N.C., and had been a Peninsula resident for 55 years. He was a retired merchant marine seaman.

Mr. Briley is survived by a daughter, Mable B. Bagley of Carrollton; two sons, Earl C. Briley of Reynoldsburg, Ohio, and Ronald L. Briley of Warren, Mich.; two sisters, Eva Dell Mason of Franklin and Effie B. Slagle of Anaheim, Calif.; two brothers, Willie Briley and James Briley, both of Anaheim, Calif.; six grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

The family will receive friends in Peninsula Funeral Home from 7 to 8 p.m. today. A funeral will be held in the funeral home at 12:30 p.m. Saturday by the Rev. David Hagee of Parkview Church of God. Burial will follow in Poplar Spring Cemetery, Franklin.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY by CNB