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I 'm pleased to welcome you to my blog "Obituaries", which I started last year, going back about five years to extract obituaries from The News-Reporter pertaining to the deaths of people related to me, friends of mine, or just people I've known or should have known.

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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Grace Newsome Speer

Graveside services for Grace Newsome Speer. 92, of Tampa, Fla., will be held Friday, May 15, 2009, at Resthaven Cemetery, Washington. A memorial service will follow at Mt. Zion United Methodist Church, Washington.

Mrs. Speer was a native of Wilkes County and was the daughter of the late Alexander Stephens Newsome and Ada Combs Newsome. She was the widow of Emmett Lawson Speer. She had been a resident of Tampa, Fla., since 1949, and had worked for 37 years as an office manage for a CPA firm. She was an active resident of John Knox Village in Tampa at the time of her death. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Washington and an associate member of Mt. Zion United Methodist Church, Washington, and Temple Terrace United Methodist Church, Tampa.

Memorial contributions may be made to the First UMC, 100 W. Liberty St., Washington 30673; Mt. Zion UMC, c/o Wade Dunnaway, 1137 Big Cedar Dr., Washington; or Temple Terrace UMC, 5030 E. Busch Blvd., Tampa, Fla. 33617.
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