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                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: SUNDAY, August 8, 1993                   TAG: 9308090163
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: B-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: FOREST                                LENGTH: Medium

OBIT RADFORD, DUVAL

RADFORD, duVal, of "Woodbourne" in Forest, Bedford County, died August 7, 1993, in Virginia Baptist Hospital. He was the husband of Katherine Chamberlin Hyatt Radford. Born January 26, 1908, at "Rothsay " in Forest, Bedford Co., he was the son of the late Octavius Loxley Clark Radford and Marie Louise Jameson Radford. He graduated from Virginia Episcopal School in 1925, and received his A.B. degree in 1930, from Washington and Lee University. In 1937, he earned his Doctor Jurisprudence in law from George Washington University. From 1933 to 1938, he was an assistant clerk of the Senate Appropiations Committee, under the chairmanship of Senator Carter Glass. After passing the Virginia State Bar in 1937, he practiced law with Landon Lowry in Bedford, becoming a partner in that practice. In 1943, during World War II, he was commissioned in the U.S.N.R. and became skipper of an LCI (L) the following spring. Participating in the invasion of Southern France with a group command ship, he completed his naval service in 1946, as Lieutenant Senior Grade. He returned to Bedford to practice law, where he was a member and served as president of Bedford Bar Association. In 1988, he received the Fifty Years of Practice Award from the Virginia Bar Association, and in 1990, he retired from the firm, Radford and Wandrei. In 1948, he was elected to the House of Delegates, serving for six years, during which he was a member of the Courts of Justice and the Privilege and Elections Committee. He was a member of the Young Democratic Clubs of Virginia, serving as State President, as well as Sixth District Chairman of the Democratic Party of Virginia in later years. In the 1930's, he began collecting early American glass. In the 1950's, he became a member of the National Early American Glass Club, Ltd., acting as a director until serving in 1989, as president. He was an associate member of the Corning Museum of Glass, the Glass Society of Chrysler Museum, and was elected a member of the Glass Circle, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, England. In 1941, he and his wife, with architect Stanhope Johnson, restored "Woodbourne," a Radford family home of the period 1790-1820, in Forest. In 1966, this home was named a Virginia historic landmark and was placed on the national register of historic places. He participated in reactivating St. Stephens Episcopal Church in Forest, established in 1824, with land given by his family as his great-grandfather William Radford had served on the first vestry. He became both a junior and senior warden on the vestry, serving on the yard and cemetery committee, as well as the financial committee, for fifty years. He was active in the founding of the Bedford County Memorial Hospital and served for many years on the board. He and his wife were early residents of Smith Mountain Lake, where they owned a log cabin of the early 1800's, for twenty-five years. He was active in the formation of Smith Mountain Lake Association, serving as one of the early directors, and remained interested in the early development of the lake. A member of the Forest Lodge Masonic Order, he was a member of the Shrine Club of Roanoke, Bedford, and Lynchburg. He had an active interest in civic affairs, retaining memberships in many organizations and clubs. He was preceded in death by two sisters, M. Louise Radford and Octavia duVal Radford; two brothers,O.L.C. Radford Jr. and Morton J. Radford. In addition to his wife, he is survived by his two daughters, Laura Radford Goley and Anne Radford Barrett of Forest; seven grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren. The funeral will be at St. Stephens Episcopal Church on Perrowville Road, Forest, at 4 p.m. Monday. Graveside Masonic Rites by Forest Lodge #245, A.F.&A.M. will follow in the church cemetery. The family will be at "Woodbourne" in Forest. Memorials can be sent to St. Stephens Episcopal Church. Diuguid Rivermont Chapel is in charge of the arrangements. 


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