Roanoke Times
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DATE: SATURDAY, April 28, 1990                   TAG: 9004280026
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: A4   EDITION: METRO 
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OBIT-LESLIE, V.

\ PEARISBURG - Viola Elvie Leslie, age 76, died Thursday morning in a Blue Field, W.Va. hospital. A native of Pulaski, she is the daughter of the late Harry and Margaret Gray Hughes. She is survived by her husband, Melvin E. Leslie; six sons, Jimmy Gusler, Pa.; Junior Gusler, Pa.; Gene Warden, Ore.; Curtis Warden, Pulaski; William Warden, Md.; Raymond Warden, Front Royal, Va.; six daughters, Sarah Blevins, Damascus, Va.; Pearl Prokos, Texas; Marie Renshaw, Md.; Beatrice Irwin, Olympia, Wash.; Barbara Utterback, Nokesville, Va.; Eloise Webb, Front Royal, Va.; one brother, Joe Hughs, St. Louis, Mo.; 43 grandchildren; 35 great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted Sunday at 2:00 p.m. in the Williams Jamison Kendall Funeral Home, Pembroke with burial in Birchlawn Burial Park, Pearisburg. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. Saturday evening.