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

DATE: Friday, March 29, 1996                 TAG: 9603290411
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B6   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH                     LENGTH: Short :   25 lines

LESTER C. HOLLYFIELD SR.

Lester Cooledge Hollyfield Sr., 76, of 1032 Gold Leaf Court, formerly of Spring Lake, N.C., died Monday, March 25, 1996, in the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Hampton.

Mr. Hollyfield was a retired carpenter and was an Army veteran of World War II.

Survivors include one son, Lester C. Hollyfield Jr. of Virginia Beach; one brother, Ardist Hollyfield of Greensboro, N.C.; two sisters, Pauline Bloom of Greensboro and Averley Inman of Pinehurst, N.C.; and two grandchildren.

Funeral services will be held Saturday at 1 p.m. in the Adcock Funeral Home Chapel by the Rev. William Beasley. Burial will be in LaFayette Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends at Adcock Funeral Home from 7 to 9 p.m. today and other times at 1689 Danbury Drive, Fayetteville, N.C.

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