DATE: Thursday, February 27, 1997           TAG: 9702270374

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CHARLES SPIEGEL

Retired U.S. Navy SCPO Charles Spiegel, 75, of the 3100 block of Beaverdam Road, died Feb. 25, 1997, in Southampton Memorial Hospital.

Mr. Spiegel was born in Union City, N.J., and was the son of the late Frank E. and Emma Lunsmann Spiegel. He was a veteran of World War II, serving in the Atlantic and Pacific theaters, and the Korean Conflict and retired after 21 years of service. In 1943, he was one of 56 survivors of a U-boat attack on the USS Leary in the North Atlantic. He was a 1967 graduate of East Carolina University, where he was a former dormitory resident counselor. He retired after 15 years at Lake Taylor Junior High School, Norfolk, where he taught history, geography and economics.

Survivors include a son, Charles F. Spiegel Jr., and his wife, Neda, of Sigourney, Iowa; two sisters, Margaret L. Blanton and her husband, Malcolm, of Virginia Beach, Shirley M. Blank and her husband, George, of Franklin; a granddaughter, Karen Spiegel of Pocatella, Idaho; a nephew, Thomas J. Blanton of Virginia Beach; a niece, Judith Ann White of Corva Beach, N.C. He was predeceased by a brother, Frank E. Spiegel Jr., and a grandson, Charles H. Spiegel III.

A graveside funeral with full military honors will be conducted at 1:30 p.m. Friday in Quantico National Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. today at Wright Funeral Home and other times at 3103 Beaverdam Road. Memorials may be made to the Windsor Volunteer Rescue Squad. KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY

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