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                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, March 17, 1993                   TAG: 9303170352
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: LOTTSBURG                                LENGTH: Short

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OBIT DAVIS, RALPH CURTIS

DAVIS, Ralph Curtis, 65, of Lottsburg, died Sunday, March 14, 1993 in Fairfax County Hospital. He was formerly of Buena Vista. Mr. Davis was born in Rockbridge County on August 13, 1928, the son of the late Hugh B. Davis and Flora Smith Davis. He was a retired engineer with Safeway and attended Melrose Methodist Church. He was a veteran of the Korean Conflict and an avid sportsman. He was preceded in death by his wife, Opal Evelyn Hall Davis. He is survived by two daughters, Teresa Davis, Lottsburg and Sally Kaye Whitton, Burke; two sons, Skipper Jack Davis and Hugh Madison Davis, both of Lorton; one sister, Frances Sensabaugh, Fishersville; two brothers, H. B. Davis, Raphine and Tommy Davis, New Market; ten grandchildren. Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 18, at Lomax Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Marc Sherrod officiating. Burial will follow in Green Hill Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Lomax Funeral Home.

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