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              Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: Thursday, April 18, 1996               TAG: 9604180305
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B4   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: NORFOLK                            LENGTH: Short :   27 lines

MABLE B. SHARPE

Mable B. Sharpe, 81, formerly of the 500 block of Nicholson St., died April 13, 1996, at Sentara Norfolk General Hospital.

Mrs. Sharpe, the widow of Van Sharpe, was a homemaker. She was a native of Rocky Mount, N.C., and a member of St. Paul C.M.E. Church.

Survivors include a daughter, Elsie Taylor of Washington, D.C.; two sons, Ulysses Taylor of Rocky Mount and Lawrence Lee of Norfolk; three sisters, Ada Newell and Dorothy Boney of Rocky Mount, and Ella Parker of New York; a sister-in-law, Geneva Boney of Battleboro, N.C.; a grandson, Trenton Sanders of Norfolk; a devoted granddaughter-in-law, Alexis Hopkins; and a great-granddaughter, Costella Little.

The funeral will be held at 11 a.m. Friday at Riddick Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. ILLUSTRATION: Photo

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY by CNB