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

DATE: Thursday, October 26, 1995             TAG: 9510260359
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B6   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: CHESAPEAKE                         LENGTH: Short :   29 lines

STELLA B. HALSTEAD

Stella Batts Halstead, 70, of the 300 block of Briarfield Drive, died Oct. 24, 1995, in a Chesapeake hospital.

Mrs. Halstead was born in Nash County, N.C., and was the daughter of the late Cooper and Maggie Whitehead Batts. She was a member of Rosemont Christian Church.

Survivors include her husband, Robert L. Halstead; her daughter and son-in-law, Joyce and Francis Bartlett of Chesapeake; her sister, Maggie Mae Sprowl of New Hampshire; her brother, George Batts of Sharpsburg, N.C.; four grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

The funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday in Oman Funeral Home, Great Bridge, by the Rev. Robert Harrell. Interment will be in Chesapeake Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. today. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, Portsmouth-Chesapeake Unit, 2730 Ellsmere Ave., Norfolk, Va. 23513.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY

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