DATE: Tuesday, October 21, 1997             TAG: 9710210151

SECTION: LOCAL                   PAGE: B6   EDITION: FINAL 

DATELINE: NORFOLK                           LENGTH:   38 lines

ALINE P. ECHOLS

Aline Page Echols, 77, of Norfolk, died Oct. 19, 1997, at Maryview Nursing Care Center in Portsmouth. She was the widow of Angus Robert Echols.

Born in Raleigh, N.C., she was the daughter of the late Robert S. and Pattie M. Page. She lived in Charlottesville for 11 years, and was a resident of Norfolk for 65 years.

She graduated from Maury High School in 1938, and later attended Gunston Hall in Washington D.C. During World War II, she worked at the Beacon Bookstore and volunteered for the Red Cross as a jeep driver. During the 1960s, she became a Red Cross Water Safety Instructor for the Y.M.C.A. and was instrumental in beginning the first Water-Baby classes in Tidewater. She was a member of Christ and St. Luke's Episcopal Church, where she had charge of the Beehive Bookstore for many years.

Surviving are a daughter, Jane E. Meador and her husband, John P. Meador; a son, Robert P. Echols and his wife, Paula C. Echols; a daughter, Beverly E. Keilty and her husband, Peter L. Keilty; grandchildren, Stephanie E. Lasting, Jesse C. Cantelope, Margaret C. Cantelope, Robin L. Cantelope, Eamon E. Perrel, Sarah M. Perrel, Roam A. Perrel, Robert C. Echols and Paul A. Echols; and close family friend Carl E. Sykes, Jr. She was preceded in death by her brother, Robert S. Page, Jr.

A funeral service will be conducted at 10 a.m. Wednesday, October 22, at Christ and St. Luke's Episcopal Church by the Rev. Erwin Lewis. Interment will follow in Grace Church Cemetery in Cismont, Va., at 3 p.m. The family will receive friends today from 7 to 8 p.m. in H.D. Oliver Funeral Apartments, Norfolk Chapel. Memorial donations may be made to the Salvation Army, P.O. Box 388, Norfolk, Va.; Jackson Field Home, 546 Walnut Grove Drive, Jarratt, Va.; Covington Boys' Home, RR 3 Box 47, Covington, Va.; or the Alzheimer's Association, Suite 233, 20 Koger Center, Norfolk, Va. ILLUSTRATION: Photo KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY

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