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DATE: WEDNESDAY, January 19, 1994                   TAG: 9401190227
SECTION: VIRGINIA                    PAGE: C-2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: CHRISTIANSBURG                                LENGTH: Short


OBIT WILLARD, JOSEPH E.

WILLARD, Joseph E., ("Ted"), 86, of Christiansburg, died Monday morning, January 17, 1994, in a Radford hospital. He was a former merchant in Christiansburg, and was the owner and operator of Willard Monument Company in Christiansburg from 1952 until his retirement in 1974. He was a member of the Christiansburg Lions Club, served on the Board of Directors of the Christiansburg Cemetery Corp. for many years, was Past President of the Blue Ridge Coon Hunters Association. He was a member of the church in Rogers, Va. for many years, and his greatest love was his church in Rogers, Va., The Trinity Fellowship Church, which he founded several years ago. He was preceded in death by his father, mother, two brothers and his only daughter, Jo Ann Willard Scott. Surviving are his wife, Virginia W. Willard; a sister, Ruth McNeil, Christiansburg; a sister-in-law, Edna Willard; several nieces and nephews, also many special friends. The funeral will be today at 1 p.m. at the Richardson-Horne Funeral Home Chapel, conducted by Rev. Ellis Meredith with interment in Sunset Cemetery. Arrangements are being conducted by Richardson-Horne Funeral Home.



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