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

DATE: Thursday, August 3, 1995               TAG: 9508030433
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WILLIAM A. CATON

William Albert Caton, 72, died Monday July 31, 1995, at N.A.M. Hospital, Nassawadox.

Mr. Caton, the son of the late William Henry and Eva Gilbert Caton, was born in Virginia Beach. A retired chief pilot for the U.S. Justice Department Drug Enforcement Administration, he was a member of the Eastern Shore Chapel, Virginia Beach. He was also a member of the Washington and Henry Lodge (NU)344 A.F. & A.M., Mechanicsville, the Tucson Scottish Rite Bodies, the Sabbar Temple Shrine, Tucson, Ariz., the Retired Special Agents Association, and the Police Association of Virginia.

Survivors include his wife, Grace Coble Caton; two daughters, Christine Caton Murphy of Hallwood and Karen Lynn McLamb-Crow of El Paso, Texas; and a sister, Margaret Caton Krier of Cape Charles.

A service will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday in Antioch Methodist Church, Route 2, Highway 210, Garland, N.C. Doughty Funeral Home, Exmore, in charge of local arrangements. Flowers may be sent to Butler Funeral Home, 401 West Roseboro St., Roseboro, N.C., 28382, or memorials may be made to Khedive Temple Shrine, Crippled Children's Hospital Fund, in care of George N. Doughty, 3 Madison Ave., Cape Charles, Va., 23310.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY

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