The Virginian-Pilot
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DATE: Thursday, January 30, 1997            TAG: 9701300306
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B8   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: NORFOLK                           LENGTH:   22 lines

JOSEF FISCHER

Josef Fischer, 69, of the 8400 block of Larrymore Ave., died Jan. 28, 1997, in his residence.

Born in Palitz, Czechoslovakia, he was a retired self-employed shoemaker and was a member of German European-American Society of Virginia.

Survivors include his wife, Luise Fischer; a daughter, Renate Bose and her husband, Matthew, of Virginia Beach; three sisters, Maria Salomon, Anelise Lang, Hilde Meyer, all of Germany; two grandchildren, Adam Josef Bose and Eric William Bose, both of Virginia Beach.

A graveside funeral will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday in Woodlawn Memorial Gardens by the Rev. Ernest L. Trueblood. The family will receive friends at Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home, Tidewater Drive Chapel, from 7 to 9 p.m. today. In lieu of flowers memorial donations may be made to Sentara Hospice in memory of Josef Fischer.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY


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