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

DATE: Friday, August 23, 1996               TAG: 9608230019
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B9   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: HAMPTON                           LENGTH:   19 lines

RUTH A. LOFURNO

Ruth Allard Lofurno, 80, died Thursday, Aug. 22, 1996.

A native of Norfolk, she had been a Hampton resident for 54 years and was preceded in death by her husband, Frank A. Lofurno.

A Mass of Resurrection will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Monday in St. Joseph Catholic Church by the Rev. Vincent J. Douglass, CSsR, with interment in Parklawn Memorial Park. A Christian wake service will be held at 7 p.m. Sunday in R. Hayden Smith Funeral Home after which the family will receive friends until 9 p.m.

The family requests that expressions of sympathy take the form of contributions to the Poor Clare Monastery, 28 Harpersville Road, Newport News, 23601.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY by CNB