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

DATE: Monday, October 7, 1996               TAG: 9610070010
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B5   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: ZUNI                              LENGTH:   27 lines

ALFRED R. COBB

Alfred Raby Cobb, 77, of the 7500 block of Mill Creek Drive, died Oct. 4, 1996, in Chesapeake General Hospital.

A native of Isle of Wight County, Mr. Cobb was a member of Bethany Presbyterian Church, Zuni. He was an elder and former Sunday school teacher and a former member of the Zuni Ruritan Club. He was a U.S. Army veteran of World War II. He was a retired contractor. He was predeceased by his mother, Indiana Barrett, and his father, William Alfred Cobb.

Survivors include his wife, Pauline L. Cobb; a daughter, Rebecca C. Dowty, and son-in-law, Claude, of Zuni; sons Ronald Alfred Cobb and daughter-in-law, Vicki, of Zuni, William H. Cobb and daughter-in-law, Kim, of Zuni; brothers, Warren R. Cobb of Ivor, Va., John P. Cobb of Zuni and Russell T. Cobb of Suffolk; seven grandchildren, Robert C. Spruill, Janice L. Hayden, Brenda A. Weaver, Brooke A. Cobb, William W. Cobb, Michele C. Musolino and Justin Travis Cobb; two great-grandchildren, Brennan T. Weaver and Lauren Victoria Musolino.

A funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. today in Harrell Funeral Home, Suffolk, by the Rev. John Hartman, the Rev. T.A. Powell and the Rev. Ruffin Alphin. Burial will be in Antioch Christian Church Cemetery. Visitation was at the funeral home Sunday evening and other times at the residence, 7523 Mill Creek Drive.

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