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DATE: Friday, February 23, 1996              TAG: 9602230385
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B6   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: NORFOLK                            LENGTH: Short :   29 lines

MARY S. BLAKE

Mary ``Juanita'' Stith Blake, 56, of the 2900 block of Hollister Ave., died Feb. 19, 1996, in Lake Taylor Hospital.

She was a native of Norfolk and a member of New Hope COGIC, Norfolk. She was a retired medical technologist.

She was predeceased by her parents, Dorothy and George W. Stith Sr. She is survived by seven sisters, Dorothy Stith-Thompson, Wilhelmenia Mathews, Erma Morgan and Emily Simon, all of California, Eleanor Watson of Texas, Kathy Menifee of New York, and Marcia Perkins of Virginia Beach; and three brothers, George Stith of Maryland, Ronald Stith of Norfolk, and Wesley Stith of Ohio.

A funeral will be at 11 a.m. Saturday by Elder Herman Clark in New Hope COGIC, 3232 Brest St., Norfolk. Burial is in Lincoln Cemetery, Portsmouth. The body will be placed in church at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Family and friends will assemble at 1337 Northvale Drive, Virginia Beach, at 10 a.m. Saturday. Hale Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. ILLUSTRATION: Photo

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