The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Friday, January 26, 1996               TAG: 9601260476
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B6   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: GATES                              LENGTH: Short :   26 lines

EARL L. MONDS SR.

Earl Luther Monds Sr., 69, of Route 1, died Thursday, Jan. 25, 1996, in Roanoke-Chowan Hospital, Ahoskie.

Mr. Monds was born in Chowan County. The son of the late James Edward and Mrs. Sally Lodge Monds, he was retired from the North Carolina Department of Transportation.

Surviving are one daughter, Patricia Hagman of Suffolk; son, Earl L. Monds Jr. of Newport News; sister, Fannie Casper of Hobbsville; brother, Lloyd E. Monds of Gates; half-brother, Linwood Monds of Corapeake; six grandchildren; and one-great-grandchild.

Graveside services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday in Warwick Baptist Church Cemetery by the Rev. Wayne Gardner. Miller Funeral Home, Gatesville, is in charge of arrangements. Friends may join the family at the home of his brother, Lloyd Monds, Route 1, Gates.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY by CNB