THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1997, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Wednesday, February 12, 1997 TAG: 9702120426
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B9 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: SEAFORD LENGTH: 24 lines
Mordecai Waller Gayle III, 76, commissioner of revenue for York County from 1975-83, died Tuesday, Feb. 11, 1997.
A native and lifelong resident of the Peninsula, he was a member of the Zion United Methodist Church, Seaford. He was a member of Peninsula Masonic Lodge No. 278 and Yorktown Masonic Lodge No. 205 and was due to receive his 50-year pin from the Yorktown Lodge in March. He was also a member of Order of Eastern Star York Chapter No. 110, where he served as a worthy patron from 1990-91.
He is survived by his wife, Thelma Gayle; and a son, Mordecai Waller Gayle IV.
Eastern Star service will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday in Amory Funeral Home, Grafton. The family will receive friends following the service there. A funeral service will be conducted at 11 a.m. Friday in the funeral home by the Rev. Jack L. Hamilton. Burial with Masonic rites will follow in Greenlawn Cemetery, Newport News.
KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY