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

DATE: Saturday, August 17, 1996             TAG: 9608170621
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B4   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: EURE                              LENGTH:   21 lines

MARIAN J. UMPHLETT

Marian Johnson Umphlett, 86, of Route 1, died Tuesday, Aug. 13, 1996.

Mrs. Umphlett was born in North Carolina. The daughter of the late Francis Marion and Mrs. Mary Rawls Johnson, she was a homemaker and a member of Franklin Congregational Christian Church. She was the wife of the late Joseph Barton Umphlett Sr.

Surviving are two daughters, Marjorie Sherbert of Virginia Beach and Jeri Holt of Franklin, Va.; a son, Joseph B. Umphlett Jr. of Eure; a stepbrother, Milam Johnson of Raleigh, N.C.; eight grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren.

A funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Sunday in Eure Baptist Church by the Rev. Wayne Whiting. Burial will follow in the church cemetery with Miller Funeral Home, Gatesville, in charge of arrangements. Friends may join the family at the home of her son, Depot Road, Eure.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY by CNB