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DATE: SATURDAY, March 3, 1990                   TAG: 9003032525
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: METRO 
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OBIT-CROCKETT, S.

CROCKETT, SALLIE G. RADFORD - Sallie Jane Gillespie Crockett, age 89, died Friday morning, March 2, 1990. She was born in Tazewell County, on April 1, 1900, the fourth child of James Floyd Gillespie and Mary Frank Crockett. She was preceded in death by her husband, Bruce Hamilton Crockett and three sisters and one brother, Ada Pierce Moore, Lillian Alderson Gillespie, James Robert Gillespie and Virginia Hazel Speed, Sallie, Lillie and Joe operated Gillespie Grocery in Bluefield, Va. for over twenty years. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Bluefield. She is survived by a nephew, Sonny and Sue Speed and family of Christiansburg, Va.; one niece, Sue and George Wysor and family of Arlington, Va.;and special friends. Funeral service will be held Sunday, March 4, at 3:00 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church in Bluefield, Va., with the Rev. Don Scott officiating. Interment will follow in the Maplewood Cemetery in Tazewell. Friends may call Sunday from 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church in Bluefield. DeVilbiss Funeral Home, Radford, is handling the arrangements. 


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