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

DATE: Thursday, October 17, 1996            TAG: 9610170289
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B4   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: NORFOLK                           LENGTH:   33 lines

WILLIAM E. CHITTY

William E. Chitty, 82, died Oct. 15, 1996, in a Newport News hospital.

A native of Norfolk, Mr. Chitty was president of Roof Engineering Corporation. He was a member of Knox Presbyterian Church and co-founder of the Eastern Brewbaker Academy. He was a member of the Builders and Contractors Exchange, the Virginia Association of Roofing Contractors and the National Roofing Contractors Association. He was actively affiliated with the Boys Club, Salvation Army, Boy Scouts of America, Optimist International Club, Norfolk and Virginia Beach Executives Club and numerous other organizations.

Survivors include his wife, Cathryn Hudgins Chitty; daughters, Lucie Ann Helwig and her husband, Howard, of Virginia Beach and Cathryn E. Chitty of Virginia Beach; sons, William E. Chitty II and his wife, Vicki, of Virginia Beach and Ronnie D. Chitty and his wife, Joyce, of Spring Grove, Va.; sisters, Garnet Lucille Smith of Elizabeth City, N.C., and Doris Bernice Vonderheide of Baltimore; six grandchildren, Scott Andrew Helwig, Ryan William Helwig, Juli Anna Chitty, Bonni Rae Chitty, James W. Wise and Jennifer Lee Wise; and numerous nieces and nephews.

A funeral service will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday in Hollomon-Brown Funeral Home, Tidewater Drive Chapel, by the Rev. J. Ewing Brown. Burial will be private. The family will receive friends in the funeral home from 7 to 9 p.m. today. There will be a reception at the church following the service. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Salvation Army, P.O. Box 388, Norfolk, Va. 23501 or Norfolk Diabetes Institute c/o Cosmopolitan Foundation, P.O. Box 62628, Virginia Beach, Va. 23462. ILLUSTRATION: Photo

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