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

DATE: THURSDAY, March 18, 1993                   TAG: 9303180063
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-3   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: PRINCETON, W.VA.                                LENGTH: Short

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OBIT KITTS, BILLIE MARIE WOOD

KITTS, Billie Marie Wood, 83, of Princeton, W.Va., died Sunday, March 14, 1993 in a Bluefield nursing home. She resided at 208 Kec Street in Princeton. She was born in Montgomery County, Va., the daughter of the late John Earl and Alpha Jane Howard Wood. She was a graduate of Elkhorn - Northfork High School in McDowell County. She was a retired employee for the Leggetts Department Stores of both Bluefield and Princeton. She was a member of the Johnston Chapel Baptist Church on the Halls Ridge Road in Princeton. She moved to Princeton in 1928 coming from Powhatan. She was preceded in death by two brothers, John S. Wood and Aubrey Wood, along with two sisters, Hazel Bolen and Madeline James. Surviving are one son, Shelby Kitts, Princeton; one brother, Grant Wood, Princeton. Funeral services will be held 1 p.m. Friday from Burns Wornal Chapel of the Memorial Funeral Directory on the Athens Road in Princeton with Reverend John King and Reverend Jim Nofsinger officiating. Burial will follow in the Roselawn Memorial Gardens on the Courthouse Road in Princeton. The family will receive friends Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home.

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