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

DATE: Monday, October 28, 1996              TAG: 9610280011
SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B5   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: RALEIGH                           LENGTH:   14 lines

JESTER L. PIERCE

Dr. Jester Leroy Pierce, 84, died Oct. 24, 1996.

A funeral service will be held at the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, 125 Hillsborough St., Raleigh, at 11 a.m. Monday, with the Rev. Robert C. Sawyer, the Rev. Janet Watrous and the Rev. Louis C. Melcher Jr. officiating. Interment will follow in Oakwood Cemetery. Arrangements are by Brown-Wynne Funeral Home, St. Mary's Street.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY by CNB