DATE: Saturday, November 8, 1997            TAG: 9711080210

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PHILIP R. TRAPANI

Philip Richard Trapani, 63, of the 5400 block of Argall Crescent, died Nov. 7, 1997, in Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.

Mr. Trapani was a native of Rochester, N.Y., and a resident of Norfolk since 1962. He was the city attorney for Norfolk and has held this position from 1975 to the present. He was a member of Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Norfolk. He served the U.S. Navy Reserve as a lieutenant commander with active duty from 1957 to 1959. He served as an engineering officer and OOD aboard the USS Waldo County at Little Creek, Virginia, Naval Justice School, Summary Court Martial.

He graduated from the University of Rochester with a B.A. in History in 1957 and the Albany Law School, Union University with an L.L.B. in 1962. He began his legal career with the law firm of Nausbaum and Alfriend, Attorneys, Norfolk from 1962 to 1965. He was the assistant city attorney of Norfolk from 1965 to 1975 and was appointed city attorney in 1975.

Mr. Trapani was a member of the American, Virginia State and the Norfolk-Portsmouth Bar Associations and a past Secretary of Young Lawyers' Section. He was a member, former board member and president of the Norfolk Municipal Employees' Federal Credit Union, member of the Junior Chamber of Commerce, former board member of Y's Men's Club, board member and past vice president and secretary of the Norfolk Community Concert Association, board member of Catholic Family and Children's Services, Citizen Advisory Commission, Norfolk Yacht and Country Club, Blessed Sacrament parish advisory board, Executive Clubs of Norfolk and Virginia Beach, Norfolk Torch Club, National Institute of Municipal Law Officers, National Council of School Attorneys, member, former board member and president of the Boys Clubs of Norfolk-Virginia Beach, past chairman of the committee on Prepaid Legal Services, former chairman of the Norfolk Prepaid Legal Insurance Demonstration Policy Board, Virginia State Bar Committee on Prepaid Legal Services, American Bar Association Committee on government Tort Liability, Local Government Attorneys Association of Virginia, NIMLO Committee on Municipally-owned Utilities and Municipal Attorney Ethics, Board member of the YMCA, Board member of the Four Cities United Way, Virginia State Bar Second District Disciplinary Committee member, Advisory Board of St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital, Virginia State Bar Second District Disciplinary Committee, secretary in 1983 and chairman in 1984, board member of the Norfolk and Portsmouth Bar Association Committee, board member of the Local Government Attorneys, chairman of the Virginia Bar Association, Municipal Law Committee in 1984 and 1985, former board member, vice-president and president of the Local Government Attorneys, Norfolk-Portsmouth Bar Association Executive Committee member, VML Effective Government and Policy Committee. He also received the National Conference of Christian and Jews' Humanitarian Award in 1995, Knights of Columbus, Council 3548 Annual Civic Award for Distinguished Community Service in 1986.

Survivors include his wife, Patricia Moore Trapani ; two daughters, Suzanne Trapani of West Palm Beach, Fla., Patricia Izard of Norfolk; three sons, Charles Trapani of Norfolk, Philip Trapani Jr., Edward Trapani, all of Norfolk; his mother, Jean Trapani of Rochester, N.Y.; a sister, Mary Jo Bopp of Rochester; and four grandchildren, Tyler, Connor Philip Trapani III and Eliza Izard.

A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Monday at Sacred Heart Catholic Church by the Rev. John Dorgan. Burial will be in Forest Lawn Cemetery. A Christian Wake service will be held in H.D. Oliver Funeral Apts., Norfolk, at 5 p.m. Sunday.

Memorial donations may be made to the Chrysler Museum or the Leukemia Walk c/o Jennifer Trapani, 1414 Monterey Ave., Norfolk , Va. 23508. KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY

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