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              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Wednesday, October 2, 1996            TAG: 9610020416
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B4   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: NORFOLK                           LENGTH:   23 lines

BEVERLY F. WILLAFORD

Beverly Ann Foster Willaford, 57, of the 6600 block of Fordwick Drive died Sept. 30, 1996, in a Norfolk hospital.

A native of Norfolk, she was a telephone operator for Sentara Health System for two years. She previously worked in the Portsmouth Circulation Department of The Virginian-Pilot and The Ledger-Star for 18 years.

Survivors include her husband, William Bateman Willaford; a stepdaughter, Martha W. King of Arvada, Colo.; two stepsons, William B. Willaford III of Ashland, Va., Timothy Earl Willaford of Ovid, Mich.; four brothers, Jackson S. Foster Jr., Thomas M. Foster, Richard S. Foster, all of Virginia Beach; Robert M. Foster of Oklahoma City, Okla.; eight grandchildren and a great-grandchild.

A funeral will be conducted at 11 a.m. Thursday in Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home, Lynnhaven Chapel, by the Rev. Ted Bashford. Burial will be in Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today in the funeral home and also at 3344 Eagle Nest Point, Virginia Beach, after the service.

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