THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1996, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, May 19, 1996 TAG: 9605190032
SECTION: LOCAL PAGE: B6 EDITION: FINAL
DATELINE: NORFOLK LENGTH: Short : 31 lines
Velma Wood Powell, 74, of the 500 block of Pennsylvania Ave., died May 18, 1996, in Norfolk.
Mrs. Powell was a native of Monticello, Ark. She was a member of Royster Memorial Presbyterian Church in Norfolk. Mrs. Powell was very active in the civil rights movement in Little Rock, Ark., during the '50s. She was a legal secretary and a high school teacher and very active in the State League of women voters in Arkansas. She was the director of the Norfolk Education Association, and served on the Board of Directors of the Norfolk Y.W.C.A. She was an undergraduate from the University of Arkansas at Monticello, and received her degree from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, where she was a faculty member for 18 years.
Mrs. Powell is survived by a sister, Emeline Wood Bonnell of Pretty Lake, Fla.; and several nieces and nephews.
There will be a memorial service conducted at 4 p.m. Monday at Royster Memorial Presbyterian Church. Interment will be in Arkansas at a later date. Memorial donations may be made to the American Cancer Society, Norfolk Chapter. H.D. Oliver Funeral Apartments, Norfolk Chapel, is handling arrangements.
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