The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1997, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Wednesday, February 12, 1997          TAG: 9702120425
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RAYMOND J. SWIDER III

IS 1/C Raymond J. Swider III, U.S. Navy, 31, died Feb. 8, 1997.

A U.S. Navy intelligence specialist, he was a native of Buffalo, N.Y.

Survivors include his wife, Mary Pamela Cobb Swider; father, Raymond J. Swider Jr. and his wife, Bernice, of Kenmore, N.Y.; sister, Jennifer Smith and her husband, James, of Holley, N.Y.; maternal grandparents, Grace and Howard Michael of Olcott, N.Y.; and two nieces. He was predeceased by his mother, Dorrie E. Ludwig.

A funeral will be conducted at 7 p.m. Thursday in Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home, Great Neck Chapel, Virginia Beach, by Father Richard Mooney. The family will receive friends an hour before the service.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY


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