THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1997, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Friday, February 21, 1997 TAG: 9702210766
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B6 EDITION: FINAL
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Philip Ray Boedker Sr., 51, of the 200 block of Essex Drive, died Jan. 11, 1997, in North Carolina.
A painter at the Norfolk Naval Shipyard with 23 years service, he was a Plymouth, N.C., native. He was a veteran hunter and a devoted family man. He will be missed dearly.
Survivors include his wife, Billie Jean Boedker; daughter, Kelly Jo Boedker of Chesapeake; son, Phillip Ray Boedker Jr. of Chesapeake; mother, Mrs. Ethel Ward Boedker of Chesapeake; sister, Rosemary Foster of Denton, Texas; two brothers, Bobbie Boedker of Portsmouth and Connie Boedker of Hertford, N.C.; a goddaughter, Erin Kathleen Mulloy of Jamesburg, N.J.
A funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday in Great Bridge Evangelical Free Church by the Rev. James Hunnewell. Burial will be in Chesapeake Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends in Graham Funeral Home, South Norfolk Chapel, from 7 to 8 p.m. today and at the residence at all other times. Memorial contributions may be made to the Great Bridge Evangelical Free Church Good Samaritan Fund, P.O. Box 15136, Chesapeake, Va. 23328, to be used for funeral expenses for Mike LaBounty II or for the Salvation Army.
KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY