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

DATE: Sunday, October 8, 1995                TAG: 9510080002
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B6   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: SILVER SPRING, MD.                 LENGTH: Short :   24 lines

JAMES R. SPERLING

James Ray Sperling died Saturday, Oct. 7, 1995.

Mr. Sperling was General Manager of Tidewater Cemetery Corporation of Virginia.

He was the husband of Delight Sperling and the father of Thomas Ray Sperling of Columbia, Md., Suzanne Sperling Shupe of Richmond, Va.; brother of Julia Sperling Coons of Richmond, Ind. He is also survived by three grandchildren.

Funeral services and internment will be private. Arrangements are by Collins Funeral Home. Sympathies may be expressed in the form of memorials to Montgomery Hospice Society, 1450 Research Blvd., Suite (NU)310, Rockville, Md. 20850.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY by CNB