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DATE: Wednesday, May 22, 1996               TAG: 9605230608
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B5   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: BRANCHVILLE                       LENGTH:   12 lines

JOHN E. PARTRIDGE

John Edward Partridge, 88, a resident of 31048 Little Texas Road, died Tuesday, May 21, 1996, at Southampton Memorial Hospital, Franklin.

The family will receive friends at his residence. Funeral arrangements are pending. Purviance Funeral Home, Boykins Chapel, is handling the arrangements.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY by CNB