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

DATE: FRIDAY, January 15, 1993                   TAG: 9301150366
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: METRO 
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OBIT-POWELL, BERTHA NASH

POWELL, Bertha Nash, 91, of Roanoke, died Thursday, January 14, 1993. She was a member of Melrose Baptist Church and was the widow of Leon G. Powell. She is survived by one son, Elbert B. Powell, Roanoke; one daughter and son-in-law, Elnora and Ernest Graham, Cloverdale; two grandchildren and spouses, Sharon and Alan Dunnagan, Clemmons, N.C., Gary and Sherry Graham, Troutville; four great-grandchildren, Ryane Dunnagan, Clemmons, N.C., Amber, Kristin, Tyler Graham, all of Troutville; three sisters, Mrs. Mattie Harvey, Appomattox, Mrs. Doris Mason, Chesapeake, Mrs. Lynette Reynolds, Spout Springs; one brother, Elliott Nash, Appomattox. Funeral services will be conducted from Oakey's North Chapel, 1 p.m. Saturday, January 16, with the Rev. Larry E. Sprouse, Jr. and Dr. Carl A. Collins, Jr. officiating. Burial will be in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens. Friends may call at Oakey's North Chapel, where the family will receive friends 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. Friday.

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