THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, April 28, 1995 TAG: 9504280449
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B3 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: NEWPORT NEWS LENGTH: Short : 28 lines
Russell C. Ferguson, 81, went home to be with our Lord, Wednesday, April 26, 1995.
Born in Schuyler, Va., he was a Newport News resident for 60 years. He was a member of First Baptist Church of Newport News and its S.D. Green Sunday School Class. He retired in 1979 from the Newport News Shipbuilding Co.
Survivors include his wife, Allene M. Ferguson; a daughter, Betty Ferguson Thomas of Virginia Beach; a son, Willard Britt of Baton Rouge, La.; two brothers, Elwood Ferguson of Hampton and Jay Ferguson of Midlothian; a sister, Lillian Miller of Richmond; eight grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in Peninsula Funeral Home by the Rev. Dr. James E. White. Interment will follow in Peninsula Memorial Park. The family will receive friends today from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorial donations may be made to the First Baptist Church of Newport News Building Fund.
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