THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1997, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Saturday, February 1, 1997 TAG: 9702010697
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B6 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: CHESAPEAKE LENGTH: 27 lines
Alma Tate Cason, 97, of the 200 block of Bridgeview Circle, died Jan. 31, 1997, in a Chesapeake hospital.
Mrs. Cason was born in New York. She was the daughter of the late John Lannes and Henrietta Hall Tate and the widow of Cassius Clay Cason. She was a member of the Great Bridge United Methodist Church, a former Sunday School teacher, and a member of the Woman's Society. She was a charter member of the Great Bridge Senior Citizens.
Survivors include her daughters and their husbands, Frances C. and Alva Benson and Dorothy C. and William Swain; four grandchildren, Deborah B. Sawyer and her husband, William C. Sawyer III, Karen B. Barber, Donna B. Swain and her husband, Randall W. Johnson, and William Clay Swain, all of Chesapeake; six great-grandchildren, Jennifer S. McPherson and her husband, Marc, John P. Sawyer, Sarah Parker, Temple Parker, Hampton C. Barber III and Ramah Johnson.
A funeral will be conducted at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in the chapel of Oman Funeral Home, Great Bridge, by the Rev. Robert C. Hastings. Interment will be in Chesapeake Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today in the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to the Great Bridge United Methodist Church Building Fund, 201 Stadium Drive, Chesapeake, Va. 23320.
KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY