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

DATE: Wednesday, September 25, 1996         TAG: 9609250382
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B4   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: NORFOLK                           LENGTH:   19 lines

BEVERLY E. TATE SR.

Beverly E. Tate Sr., 81, of the 1300 block of East Norcova Drive, died Sept. 23, 1996, in a Norfolk hospital.

He was retired from the Water Department of the city of Norfolk. Born in Norfolk, he was a member of Coleman Place Presbyterian Church, Norfolk.

Survivors include his wife, Mary J. Tate; two sons, Beverly E. Tate Jr. of Glen Allen, Va., and C. Robert Tate of Madison Heights, Va.; sister, Margaret Tate of Harrisonburg, Va.; four grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.

A funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday by the Rev. Larry C. Miles in Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home, Tidewater Drive Chapel. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Thursday from 7 to 9 p.m.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY by CNB