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

DATE: Tuesday, August 13, 1996              TAG: 9608130258
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B8   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: NORFOLK                           LENGTH:   24 lines

MILDRED T. BISESE

M. Elaine Thomason Bisese, beloved mother, sister and widow of the late Pasquel Edward Bisese, died in DePaul Hospital at 3:40 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 11, 1996.

She was a 1939 Norview High School graduate and was a member of Christ the King Catholic Church of Norfolk.

She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Mary Elaine Anderson of Shoup, Idaho and a son, Anthony Lynn Bisese of Windsor, Va. In addition, there is a surviving sister, Mrs. Roselyn Ellis of Jacksonville, Fla., and three brothers, Dana Lee Thomason of Chesapeake, Kenneth Dale Thomason of Charlottesville and Barry Vance Thomason of Snellville, Ga. She is also survived by four grandchildren and a host of great-grandchildren, nieces and nephews.

Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. today in Christ the King Catholic Church. She will be buried next to her husband, Pat, in the Bisese family plot in St. Mary's Cemetery on Granby Street. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. today in Smith and Williams Funeral Home, Norfolk Chapel.

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