THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, September 27, 1996 TAG: 9609270479
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B7 EDITION: FINAL
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Randall Stuart Short, 41, formerly of Portsmouth, died Sept. 23, 1996, in his home of complications from diabetes.
Mr. Short was a staff writer for New York magazine. He was a graduate of the University of Virginia, where he was an Echols Scholar. He attended and taught at Cornell University. He was member of Trinity Episcopal Church.
Survivors include his mother, Patsy Ruth Short of Portsmouth; maternal grandmother, Cora R. Leonard of Portsmouth; five aunts, Joyce Curling of Chesapeake, Sybil Smith of Fairfax Station, Va., Shirley Short of Virginia Beach, Jane Looney of Williamsburg, Va., and Charlotte Clapp of Portsmouth; an uncle, Harmon Leonard of Pittsburgh, Pa.; and Kenneth Ballentine of Portsmouth.
A funeral service will be conducted at 3 p.m. Sunday in the Snellings Funeral Home, Churchland Chapel, by the Rev. Forrest J. Bergeron Jr. Burial will be in Meadowbrook Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Saturday in the funeral home.
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