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DATE: Friday, August 11, 1995                TAG: 9508110019
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B5   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: RALEIGH                            LENGTH: Short :   26 lines

HORTENSE M. DILDAY

Hortense Mitchell Dilday, 68, died Aug. 9, 1995, in Robeson County, N.C., in a car accident.

She was born in Hertford County, N.C., and was a retired bookkeper for Raleigh Chamber of Commerce and Secretary-Treasurer of N.C. Seedsmen's. She was the widow of Hersey Lee Dilday. She was a Baptist.

She is survived by one sister, Peggy Monteith of Greenville, N.C.; one brother, Larry Mitchell of Ashland, Va.; and four nephews.

A funeral service will be held 2 p.m. Sunday, in Garrett Funeral Home, by the Rev. Jack Byrd. Burial will be in Highland Memorial Gardens, Ahoskie. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday, and will assemble at the funeral home 1 p.m. Sunday. Memorial donations may be made to the N.C. Seedsmen's Association Scholarship Fund, N.C. Agriculture Foundation Inc., P.O. Box 7645, NCSU, Raleigh, N.C. 27695.

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