
                         THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
                 Copyright (c) 1994, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: SUNDAY, June 12, 1994                    TAG: 9406120034 
SECTION: LOCAL                     PAGE: B2    EDITION: FINAL  
SOURCE: SUFFOLK 
DATELINE: 940612                                 LENGTH: Short

GERALD F. PARSONS

{LEAD} Gerald Francis Parsons, 71, of the 8000 block of Clubhouse Drive, died June 11, 1994, in a Portsmouth Hospital.

He is born in Newport News, Va. He retired in 1980 as a supervisor engineering technician for the Combat Systems Dept. at Norfolk Naval Shipyard. He was a member of the Court Street Baptist Church in Portsmouth, Lake Drummond Masonic Lodge (NU)178 and Portsmouth Scottish Rite Bodies. He was also a Navy Veteran of World War II.

{REST} Survivors include his wife, Frances B. Parsons, one son, Larry Lee Parsons and daughter in-law, Vickie S. Parsons of Suffolk; two grandchildren, Gregory Lee Parsons of Isle of White County, and Geoffrey Lee Parsons of Suffolk.

The graveside service will be conducted at 3 p.m. Tuesday by Dr. L. Wilbur Kersey in Meadowbrook Memorial Gardens Mausoleum. The family will be at Loving Funeral Home, Churchland Chapel, Monday night from 7 to 8 p.m. Memorial contributions can be made to the Chuckatuck Volunteer Fire Department, P.O. Box 2164, Suffolk, Va., 23432.

{KEYWORDS} DEATH OBITUARY

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