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DATE: FRIDAY, August 6, 1993                   TAG: 9308060248
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: NATURAL BRIDGE                                 LENGTH: Medium

OBIT-HERRING, GEORGE WILLIAMS EFFINGER

HERRING, George Williams Effinger, 79, of Natural Bridge, died Tuesday, August 3, 1993, at University of Virginia Hospital. He was born at Fruit Hill in Rockbridge Co., June 29, 1914, he was the son of the late Jonathan Shafer Alexander Herring and Lucy Madison Effinger Herring. Mr. Herring was a cattle farmer for many years and was a member of Falling Spring Presbyterian Church. He was a graduate of Shenandoah Valley Academy of Winchester; and a graduate of Virginia Military Institute Class of 1938. He was a retired Army Officer having served in World War II; a member of the Natural Bridge Ruritan Club; a member of the American Legion; and of the Rockbridge Chapter of the V.M.I. Alumni Association, and Kappa Alpha Fraternity. He was a past member and secretary of the Rockbridge Farmers Co-op Board of Directors for 35 years. He was a past member of the following: A.S.C.S. board of Directors, Board of Directors for the Crestar Bank, Rockbridge Co. School Board, Stonewall Jackson Hospital Board of Directors, Rockbridge Historical Society, and Rockbridge Co. Welfare Board (Social Services). He is survived by his wife, Ruth Anne Agnor Herring, Natural Bridge; daughter, Anne Elizabeth Effinger Herring Huffman, Lexington; two stepsons, Charles Bell Upshaw III, Raleigh, N.C., Agnor LeRoy Upshaw, Buies Creek, N.C.; one stepgrandson, Charles Andrew Upshaw, Raleigh, N.C. Funeral services will be conducted Saturday, August 7, 1993, 2 p.m. from the Falling Spring Presbyterian Church with Dr. Frederick F. Ritsch III officiating, with burial to follow in the Church Cemetery. The family suggests memorial contributions be made to Falling Spring Presbyterian Church, the American Cancer Society or the Rockbridge Grant Program of the V.M.I. Foundation. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Friday at the Harrison Funeral Home, Lexington. 


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