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DATE: Thursday, June 20, 1996               TAG: 9606200357
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B6   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: PORTSMOUTH                        LENGTH:   17 lines

JAMES A. HIGGS

James Allen Higgs, 49, of the first block of Manteo St., died June 14, 1996.

Survivors include two daughters, Amanda Johnson and Rachel Whitehead, both of Portsmouth; his mother, Viola Brown; six sisters, Jannie, Linda, Pearl, Ruby, Tina, and Shirley; seven brothers, Clint, Danny, Floyd, Fred, Jimmy Lee, Kim, and Rudy; grandmother, Mary E. Hodges; and granddaughter, Marlene ``Cookie'' Johnson.

A memorial service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in P.G. Thomasson Funeral Services, Inc.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY by CNB