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

DATE: Thursday, October 3, 1996             TAG: 9610030298
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B4   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: NORFOLK                           LENGTH:   22 lines

DAPHINE W. WILLIAMS

Daphine Wells Williams, 54, of the 4900 block of Atterbury St., died Sept. 30, 1996, in Portsmouth.

Mrs. Wells was a native of Como, N.C., and a member of New Hope COGIC, Norfolk.

Survivors include her husband, Richard L. Williams Sr.; a daughter, Lynn Williams of Norfolk; a daughter-in-law, Estella Benson Williams of Norfolk; sons, Richard L. Williams Jr. of Washington, D.C., and Eric Joe Williams of Norfolk; a sister, Beverly Heckstall of Norfolk; brothers, William Wells of Chicago and Lloyd Wells Jr. of Virginia Beach; great-grandmother, Gertrude Purdy of Edenton, N.C.; grandchildren, David L. Cahoon Jr. and Ericka Danielle Williams.

A funeral service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Saturday in Hale Funeral Home Chapel, Norfolk. Burial will be in Roosevelt Memorial Cemetery. A wake will be held from 7 to 8 p.m. Friday in the funeral home.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY by CNB