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DATE: Thursday, April 4, 1996                TAG: 9604040293
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B6   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: RICHMOND                           LENGTH: Short :   29 lines

ETHEL M. WHITHURST

Ethel Jeanette McCandless Whitehurst, widow of Patrick W. Whithurst, died Tuesday, April 2, 1996.

She was the daughter of Thomas Carlyle and Estelle Jeanette Lewis McCandless of Philadelphia. She was born March 10, 1909, in Philadelphia and retired in April 1972 from the North Carolina Extension Service as secretary to the Farm and Home Demonstration Agent in Camden County, N.C.

She is survived by her sons and daughters-in-law, John W. and Clara Reese Whitehurst of Moyock, N.C., and Charles C. and Jeanette Whitehurst of Portsmouth; her daughter and son-in-law, Anna May and Charles Borum of Richmond; eight living grandchildren; and six stepgreat-grandchildren; also her sister and brother-in-law, Anna May and Julius Schultz of Toms River, N.J. Three brothers predeceased her.

She was a member of St. Luke's Methodist Church in Richmond. The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the Bliley Funeral Home, Chippenham Chapel, 6900 Hull Street Road. Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. today in Westlawn Cemetery, Elizabeth City, N.C.

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