The Virginian-Pilot
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DATE: Friday, May 31, 1996                  TAG: 9605310440
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B6   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: CHESAPEAKE                        LENGTH:   20 lines

JOHN L. TAPSCOTT

John Lynwood Tapscott, 81, of the 700 block of Arthurs Court, died May 29, 1996, in a Chesapeake hospital.

He was a retired crane operator for Norfolk Shipbuilding and Drydock where he had worked for 26 years. He was a native of Buckingham County, Va.

Mr. Tapscott is survived by his wife of 56 years, Grace Marie Tapscott; daughter, Carolyn Lee Gingerich of Abbeville, S.C.; two sisters, Virginia Bolling of New Canton, Va., and Elizabeth Stephenson of Richmond, Va.; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.

A funeral will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday by the Rev. Paul D. Moore in Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home, Great Bridge Chapel. Burial is in Chesapeake Memorial Gardens. The family will receive friends at the funeral home today from 7 to 9 p.m.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY by CNB