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DATE: Wednesday, July 10, 1996              TAG: 9607100296
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B7   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: AHOSKIE                           LENGTH:   19 lines

LEVIE M. DILDAY

Levie McCoy Dilday, 85, died July 8, 1996, in Guardian Care Nursing Home.

He was a native of Hertford County, a member of Center Grove Baptist Church, a graduate of Mars Hill College, and a Paul Harris Fellow.

The widower of Thelma Morris Dilday, he is survived by his daughter, Allie Jane Dilday of Virginia Beach; sisters, Nellie D. Childers of Virginia Beach, Allie D. Fowler of New Bern, Nancy D. Dupree of Angier, and brother, Horace C. Dilday of Ahoskie.

The funeral will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday in Garrett Funeral Home, Ahoskie, by the Rev. Jack Byrd and the Rev. Clarence Godwin. Burial will be in Ahoskie Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today and also at 10 a.m. Thursday prior to services.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY by CNB