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

DATE: Thursday, September 7, 1995            TAG: 9509070402
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: NORFOLK                            LENGTH: Short :   25 lines

ELAINE M. RIGEL

Elaine M. Rigel, 46, of the 1600 block of Ashland Ave., died Sept. 4, 1995, in Norfolk.

Mrs. Rigel, a transcriptionist at DePaul Hospital, was born in Binghampton, N.Y. She was Catholic by faith, and a member of Tidewater Rose Society.

Survivors include her husband, Charles E. Rigel; one daughter, Amy Elizabeth Rigel of Norfolk; her mother, Anne Brooks Klimek; one sister, Nancy Paden of Florida; three brothers, Michael Klimek of North Carolina, Ronald Klimek of California, and Thomas Brooks of New York. She was preceded in death by her father, Joseph Brooks.

The funeral will be at 1 p.m. Friday in Coral Ridge Funeral Home and Cemetery, Ft. Meyers, Fla. Altmeyer Funeral Home in charge of local arrangements.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY by CNB