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

DATE: Sunday, June 23, 1996                 TAG: 9606230005
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B7   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH                    LENGTH:   25 lines

DAVID D. BUCK

David Dickerson ``Dick'' Buck died June 22, 1996, at his home. He was 81. He was born in Castlewood, Va., on June 25, 1914.

He was a graduate of Tri-State College in Angola, Ind. He worked in a small family business for one year before joining Texaco, Inc. He gave Texaco 40 years of service as a truck driver, warehouseman, manager of wholesale development for all of the United States at one time, and retired as an assistant division manger in Atlanta, Ga. in 1975.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Dorothy Ralsten Buck in 1990. Mr. Buck is survived by a son, David D. Buck Jr. of Abingdon, Va.; a daughter, Joan B. Lunsford of Alexandria, Va.; a sister, Lillian B. Kiser of Castlewood, Va.; and a granddaughter, Whitney B. Canada of North Carolina.

The funeral will be conducted Tuesday at 10 a.m. in Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home, Great Neck Chapel, Virginia Beach, by the Rev. Charles L. Wood. A graveside service will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Temple Hill Cemetery, Castlewood. Visitation will be Monday from 7 to 8 p.m. in the funeral home. In lieu of flowers, memorial remembrance may be made to a charity of the donor's choice.

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