Roanoke Times
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DATE: WEDNESDAY, August 18, 1993 TAG: 9308180198
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OBIT-FITZGERALD, ROBERT J. SR.
FITZGERALD, Robert J. Sr. 79, of Roanoke, died Monday, August 16, 1993. He
was a retired engineer from Norfolk & Western Railway with 32 years of
service, and was a member of Cave Spring Baptist Church. Mr. Fitzgerald was an
honorary life member of B.P.O.E. Lodge #197 in Roanoke. Surviving is his wife
of 48 years, Martha Michael Fitzgerald; a daughter and son-in-law, Anita and
Ronald Scott, Dunwoody, Ga.; sons, Robert (Jeff) Fitzgerald Jr. and wife,
Elizabeth, Sandy, Utah, Stephen P. Fitzgerald, Roanoke, M. D. Fitzgerald and
wife, Lynn, Roanoke, James Fitzgerald and wife, Laurie, Salem; 11
grandchildren; three brothers, Lawrence Fitzgerald, Albert Fitzgerald and
wife, Lorraine, all of Roanoke, Alfred Fitzgerald, Salem. Graveside services
will be in Evergreen Burial Park at 2 p.m. Wednesday. The Rev. Richard Elmore
and Dr. Woodrow Clark will officiate. Friends may call at Oakey's South Chapel
after noon Tuesday, where the family will receive friends from 7 to 9 p.m. In
lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Cave Spring Baptist Church, Cave
Spring Rescue Squad, or to the Alzheimer's Foundation. Arrangements by Oakey's
South Chapel.
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