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DATE: Friday, April 21, 1995                 TAG: 9504210431
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B6   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: PORTSMOUTH                         LENGTH: Short :   23 lines

JOHN T. BROWN

John Thomas Brown, 83, of the 900 block of Ann St., died April 17, 1995, in Norfolk.

Mr. Brown, a native of Portsmouth, was a retired painter from the Norfolk Naval Shipyard.

Survivors include his wife, Ruth Hill Brown; a stepdaughter, Sandra Matlock; two grandchildren, Thomas L. Singleton Jr. of Virginia Beach and Sandra Sumpton of Chesapeake; eight great-grandchildren; and a devoted caretaker and friend, Harold Richardson of Norfolk.

A graveside service will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 22, 1995, in Oak Grove Cemetery. Foster Funeral Home is handling arrangements.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY by CNB