THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
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DATE: Thursday, May 25, 1995 TAG: 9505250419
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John Stuart Rawls, 74, of the 300 block of Westwood Drive, died May 24, 1995, in his home.
Mr. Rawls was born in Gatesville, N.C. He was a member of Whaleyville United Methodist Church and the Men's Fellowship Club. Mr. Rawls had retired from Triple A Ship Repair in San Diego and San Francisco, where he was hired to establish the First Aid Department and advanced to operations manager of the company. He was a retired chief petty officer pharmacist mate with the Navy and was a veteran of World War II and the Korean War.
He was a member of Masonic Lodge (NU)126 in Gatesville, N.C.; Order of Eastern Star, Whaleyville Chapter (NU)137; Suffolk Shrine Club; Portsmouth Scottish Rite Bodies; Khedive Shrine Temple; Suffolk Moose Lodge (NU)141, holding Fellowship Degree; charter president of Port of San Diego Marine Square Club (NU)1197; VFW Post (NU)0057; Pearl Harbor Survivors Association; Fleet Reserve Association (NU)40; USS St. Louis Association (CL49); and American Legion Post (NU)2582.
Survivors include his wife, Ruth Mattingly Rawls; two daughters, Cynthia Ann Egan of Petaluma, Calif., and Carol Anett Silvious of Mount Jackson, Va.; three sons, John Ernest Rawls of National City, Calif., Carl Ashley Hendershott of El Cajon, Calif., and Charles Ernest Rawls of Petaluma, Calif.; a sister, Louise Rawls Browne of Suffolk; a brother, Robert E. Rawls Jr. of Chesapeake; five granddaughters; six grandsons; and one great-granddaughter.
A funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in Whaleyville United Methodist Church by the Rev. E. Lane Wadsworth. Burial will be in the church cemetery with military honors. Friends may join the family in Hill Funeral Home from 7 to 8 p.m. Friday. Moose rites will take place at 8 p.m. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to the Hemochromatosis Foundation Inc., P.O. Box 8569, Albany, N.Y. 12208.
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