The Virginian-Pilot
                             THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT 
              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Monday, February 26, 1996              TAG: 9602260019
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: PORTSMOUTH                         LENGTH: Short :   24 lines

WILLIAM B. WHITE

William B. White, 88, died Sunday, Feb. 25, 1996, in Maryview Hospital.

He was a native of Mathews and retired with 41 years in the Lighthouse Service. He was preceded in death by his wife, Grace M. White.

Survivors include a daughter, Linda J. Hewitt of Chesapeake; four sisters, Nellie White and Kathleen W. Bennett, both of Port Haywood, Va., Elsie W. Baxter of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Mildred W. Poole of Newport News; a brother, R. Franklin White of Port Haywood, Va.; and three grandchildren, Michelle Beaber, Brian L. Hewitt and Jennifer Hewitt, all of Chesapeake.

A funeral will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Foster-Faulkner Funeral Home, Mathews. Burial will follow in Pear Tree Cemetery, Onemo, Va. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today.

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