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

DATE: Saturday, July 6, 1996                TAG: 9607060302
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B4   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: PORTSMOUTH                        LENGTH:   21 lines

VIRGINIA W. BALDWIN

Virginia Williams Baldwin, 83, died July 3, 1996, at Maryview Hospital.

Mrs. Baldwin, formerly of Godwin, N.C., was the widow of David R.P. Baldwin Sr. She was a member of Cottage Place United Methodist Church and the Esther Chapter 37, Order of the Eastern Star.

Survivors include a son, David. R.P. Baldwin Jr. and his wife, Bertha, of Chesapeake; two daughters, Doris Jeane Baldwin Pruett and her husband, E.J., of Ranger, Texas, and Jenny Baldwin Landin and her husband, J.C., of Chesapeake; 10 grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandson.

The funeral will be conducted today at 2 p.m. in Cottage Place United Methodist Church, Portsmouth, by the Rev. James D. Thomas. Burial will be in Olive Branch Cemetery, Portsmouth. Snellings Funeral Home, Portsmouth Blvd. Chapel, is handling arrangements.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY by CNB