THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Thursday, March 9, 1995 TAG: 9503090340
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Louise Richards Pickard, 77, of 911 Howard Place, died March 7, 1995, in Obici Hospital.
A native of Chase City, she was a daughter of the late Thomas A. and Daphne Creech Richards and the widow of Marvin A. Pickard. Mrs. Pickard, a public school music teacher, taught music at Holland High and Holland Elementary schools and in her own studio. She was a member of West End Baptist Church, where she served as organist for a number of years. She was a founder of and accompanist for the Pickard Chorale.
Survivors include two daughters, Barbara B. Rayburn of Suffolk, Mary Louise Darnell of Washington, D.C.; a son, William E. Byrd III, of Dunn, N.C.; three grandsons, Lee Rayburn Jr. of Rockwood, Tenn., William T. ``Jack'' Rayburn of Suffolk, Maxwell L. Torian of Washington, D.C.; two granddaughters, Chandria and Stephanie Darnell of Washington, D.C.; and one great-grandson, Holland Rayburn III of Rockwood Tenn.
Funeral services will be conducted Friday at 1 p.m. at R.W. Baker & Co. Funeral Home by the Rev. T. Floyd Irby Jr. Burial will be in Holly Lawn Cemetery. The family will receive friends in the funeral home Thursday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. and other times at 911 Howard Place. Memorial donations may be made to the Nansemond Suffolk Rescue Squad, P.O. Box 1515, Suffolk, Va., 23439 or to the West End Baptist Church Organ Fund, 501 W. Washington St., Suffolk, Va., 23434.
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