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

DATE: Wednesday, May 24, 1995                TAG: 9505240457
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: WAKEFIELD                          LENGTH: Short :   34 lines

JOHN W. GRADY JR.

John Wesley Grady Jr., 48, of Lake Drive, died May 21, 1995, in MCV Hospital, Richmond.

A native of Wilmington, N.C., he was the son of Celia Williams Grady of Wilmington, N.C., and the late John Wesley Grady Sr. He was retired from AT & T Telephone Co. and was a Navy veteran. Mr. Grady was a member of Mount Olive Baptist Church in East Orange, N.J.

In addition to his mother, survivors include his wife, Barbara Holloman Grady; six daughters, Nina Gray of Willingboro, N.J., Kimberly Grady, Cambie Edgerton and Dawn Edgerton, all of East Orange, N.J., Elizabeth Grady and Alzana Grady, both of Wakefield; two sons, Anwar Grady of East Orange and Tait Holloman of Wakefield; three sisters, Delores Powell and Lucretia Grady, both of Wilmington, and Joyce Tendler of Pleasant Point, N.J.; a brother, Gerald Grady of Roselle, N.J.; maternal grandmother, Louise Williams of Wilmington; four paternal uncles; three maternal uncles; two paternal aunts; three maternal aunts; and one maternal great-aunt.

A funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in St. John AME Church, Wilmington, N.C., by the Rev. Jaunita David. Burial will be in the Grady Family Cemetery in Wilmington. A wake will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. today in Crocker Funeral Home, Suffolk.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY

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