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DATE: Saturday, July 1, 1995                 TAG: 9507010412
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: SURRY                              LENGTH: Short :   25 lines

WILLIE BLIZZARD

Willie Blizzard, 91, died Thursday, June 29, 1995, in Riverside Regional Convalescent Center, Newport News.

He was a native of Surry County and a member of St. Paul Holiness Church in Surry.

Survivors include his wife, Aretha Wooden Blizzard; three daughters, Gladys Hayes of Oxon Hill, Md., Gloria Young of Virginia Beach and V. Gale Hames of Hampton; two sons, Martin Blizzard of Surry and Melvin Blizzard of Summit, N.J.; 15 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren.

A funeral will be at noon Tuesday in St. Paul Holiness Church by the Rev. Ernest Green. Burial will be in the church cemetery. Visitation will be from 7 to 8 p.m. Monday in Poole's Funeral Home. The family will be at 10 Beechland Road, Surry. The body will be placed in church by 10:30 a.m. Tuesday.

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