DATE: Tuesday, November 25, 1997            TAG: 9711250493

SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B7   EDITION: FINAL 

DATELINE: YORKTOWN                          LENGTH:   38 lines

ELLA H. BRADSHAW

Ella H. Bradshaw, affectionately known as ``Weegie'' to family and friends, 82, died Sunday Nov. 23, 1997, at St. Francis Nursing Center, Newport News.

A native of Norfolk, she lived and worked in Richmond, where she enjoyed a successful career in the insurance industry. She was a Certified Professional Insurance Woman, and was chosen 1968 Woman of the Year of the Insurance Women of Richmond. She retired from the multi-peril department of the Continental Insurance Companies, Richmond office, in January of 1978. Upon retirement, she and her husband made their home in Yorktown. During her retirement, she pursued her avid interest in genealogy, and became involved in many activities and organizations which bespoke of her pride in, and love for, family and family history. She was a member of the Huguenot Society of Virginia, the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, and the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. Mrs. Bradshaw was a lifelong member of the Episcopal Church, and attended Grace Episcopal Church, Yorktown, where she was active in the Naomi Dozier Circle and the altar guild.

She was preceded in death by her loving husband, Vaughn M. Bradshaw; her mother and father, Myra G. Dashiell Hough and Paul D. Hough; a sister, Jane H. Boone; and a niece, Myra B. Givens. Survivors include two sisters, Myra H. Morrisette, Kathleen H. Viccellio and her husband, James, all of Yorktown; seven nieces and nephews, their spouses, children, grandchildren and her mother-in-law, Pauline Bradshaw.

A funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Grace Episcopal Church by the Rev. Carleton B. Bakkum. Interment will follow in the church cemetery. The family will receive friends after the service in the Parish Hall, and at other times at the home of her sister, Kathleen. Memorials may be made to Grace Episcopal Church Building Fund, P.O. Box 123, Yorktown, Va. 23690. Amory Funeral Home is handling arrangements. KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY

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