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DATE: Tuesday, August 27, 1996              TAG: 9608270220
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B6   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: VIRGINIA BEACH                    LENGTH:   26 lines

LAVERNE N. IVES

LaVerne Nellie Ives, 53, of the 600 block of Milburne Drive, died Saturday, Aug. 24, 1996, in Norfolk.

A native of Norfolk, she was the cafeteria manager at Kempsville High School. Mrs. Ives was a member of Kempsville Baptist Church and the Virginia Beach School Food Association, of which she had served as president.

Survivors include her husband, Robert T. Ives Sr.; two daughters, Lynn I. Lannon of Chesapeake and Jackie F. Matrona of Ocean City, Md.; a son, Robert T. Ives Jr. of Virginia Beach; her father, Charlie Linwood Pallett Jr. of Chesapeake; her mother and stepfather, Blanche E. Patterson and Thomas J. Patterson of Virginia Beach. Other survivors include two sisters, Maria Roughton of Virginia Beach and Cheryl Cornett of Chesapeake; two brothers, Charlie Linwood Pallett III of Virginia Beach and Thomas R. Pallett of Norfolk; three half brothers, John Cowhig and Dennis James Cowhig, both of Chesapeake, and Doc Pallett of Suffolk, as well as six grandchildren.

A funeral service will be held today at 2 p.m. in Smith & Williams Funeral Home, Kempsville Chapel, Virginia Beach, by the Rev. Herbert D. Holton. Burial will follow in Woodlawn Memorial Gardens. Memorial donations may be made to the American Diabetes Association.

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