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DATE: MONDAY, May 24, 1993                   TAG: 9305240182
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: SYLVATUS                                LENGTH: Short

OBIT MITCHELL, WILLIAM EARL SR.

MITCHELL, William Earl Sr., 65, of Sylvatus, passed away Saturday evening, May 22, 1993, at his family home place in Sylvatus. He was born on July 24, 1927, in the Mitchell's Crossroads Community of Carroll County to the late Henry Roscoe Mitchell and Eliza Milam Mitchell. He was a retired cryptologic analyst from the United States Navy, with twenty years of service, and most recently retired from the Virginia Alcohol Beverage Control Board. In retirement, he devoted his time to the Rooftop of Virginia Carroll Center Headstart Children. He was a life member of the V.F.W. Post #1115. He was a devoted, loving husband, father and brother. He is survived by his wife, June Smith Mitchell; a daughter, Melanie Kaye Mitchell of Hillsville, a daughter and son-in-law, Kimberly and Michael Quesenberry of Galax; a son, William E. Mitchell Jr. of Sylvatus; and a sister, Vicki Mitchell Cooper of Hillsville. Funeral services will be Tuesday, May 25, 1993, at 11 a.m. at the Dinwiddie Presbyterian Church, Mitchell's Crossroads, Va., with the Rev. Sam Austin and the Rev. Levi Humphreys officiating. Interment will follow in the church cemetery with military rites conducted by the Hillsville V.F.W. Post #1115. The family will receive friends Monday evening, May 24, 1993, from 7 to 9 at the funeral home and at anytime at the family home. Arrangements by Vaughan-Guynn-McGrady Chapel, Hillsville, Va. 


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